How much revenue did The Long Drive make?

$7.1M–$19.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Long Drive sell?

Q: How many copies did The Long Drive sell?

1.6M to 2.6M copies, based on its 56k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.6M; $7.1M–$19.2M after Steam's cut $13.0M–$29.5M before the cut; from 56k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Long Drive out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Long Drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.5M–11.7M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like The Long Drive

The middle of these games

≈ 9.5M–11.7M copies

≈ $86.6M–$192.6M after Steam's cut

from ~281k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 30k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Driving (7 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + Transportation + Moddable; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 1 of your 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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Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.4M–96.6M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut $594.0M–$1351.4M before the cut	$19.99	940k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
Need for Speed™ Heat 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $73.3M–$197.1M after Steam's cut $133.3M–$303.3M before the cut	$69.99	154k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Forza Horizon 5 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $114.8M–$308.7M after Steam's cut $208.8M–$474.9M before the cut	$59.99	281k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Assetto Corsa 2014	Est. copies ≈ 9.7M–15.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $53.4M–$143.6M after Steam's cut $97.1M–$220.9M before the cut	$19.99	173k reviews Very Positive	RacingAutomobile Sim
Forza Horizon 4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	303k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Schedule I 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7.8M–12.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $43.0M–$115.7M after Steam's cut $78.3M–$178.0M before the cut	$19.99	316k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Co-op
BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.3M–33.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut $253.8M–$577.4M before the cut	$24.99	416k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
American Truck Simulator 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $44.8M–$120.4M after Steam's cut $81.4M–$185.2M before the cut	$19.99	196k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Automobile SimDriving