How much revenue did Unrailed! make?

$2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unrailed! sell?

Q: How many copies did Unrailed! sell?

491k to 798k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 491k–798k; $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.2M before Steam's cut; from 20k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Unrailed! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unrailed!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 156k–382k

best case 586k (Choo-Choo Charles)

Games like Unrailed!

A typical game among these

≈ 156k–382k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Choo-Choo Charles at ≈ 446k–726k copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 801 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Trains (7 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival Horror + Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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