How much revenue did Transport Fever 2 make?

$10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Transport Fever 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Transport Fever 2 sell?

950k to 1.5M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 950k–1.5M; $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut $19.0M–$43.2M before Steam's cut; from 33k 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 Transport Fever 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Transport Fever 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 583k–4.9M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Transport Fever 2

A typical game among these

≈ 583k–4.9M copies

≈ $4.3M–$70.5M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, 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 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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Mini Motorways 2021	Est. copies ≈ 607k–986k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	24k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StrategySimulation
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Mini Metro 2015	Est. copies ≈ 819k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StrategyPuzzle
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.7M–97.0M 46x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut $596.4M–$1356.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	944k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
Transport Fever 2016	Est. copies ≈ 452k–734k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	11k reviews Very Positive	FlightCity Builder
American Truck Simulator 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M 9.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $45.0M–$120.9M after Steam's cut $81.7M–$186.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	197k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Automobile SimDriving