How much revenue did Gearshifters make?

$27k–$72k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gearshifters sell?

Q: How many copies did Gearshifters sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 157 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $27k–$72k after Steam's cut $49k–$111k before Steam's cut; from 157 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 Gearshifters and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gearshifters's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–19k

best case 1.8M (FlatOut 2)

Games like Gearshifters

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–19k copies

≈ $9k–$28k after Steam's cut

from ~203 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FlatOut 2 at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 61 reviews in their first month; the range was 41 to 188.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Combat Racing (5 of 8) and Bullet Hell (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cult Classic + Combat Racing, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2026, and 3 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 79 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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