How much revenue did Speed Limit make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Speed Limit sell?

Q: How many copies did Speed Limit sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 204 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before Steam's cut; from 204 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 Speed Limit and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Speed Limit's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.6M

best case 10.7M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Speed Limit

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–3.6M copies

≈ $2.9M–$38.3M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Fast-Paced (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.2M copies, ≈ $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fast-Paced (4 of 8) and 2D Fighter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2018, and none of them 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 38 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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