How many copies did Downtown Drift sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 272 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Downtown Drift make?

Downtown Drift is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Downtown Drift?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 8k–13k; from 272 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 Downtown Drift and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Downtown Drift's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 46k–2.5M

best case 133.2M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Downtown Drift

A typical game among these

≈ 46k–2.5M copies

≈ $122k–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.5M–164.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automobile Sim (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced 2025	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.2M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $46.6M–$125.3M after Steam's cut $84.7M–$192.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	228k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Nash Racing: Pursuit 2022	Est. copies ≈ 620–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $851–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$4.99	25 reviews Mixed	CasualRacing
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Need for Speed™ Most Wanted 2020	Est. copies ≈ 699k–1.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	28k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingMultiplayer
Autobahn Police Simulator 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 46k–75k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $255k–$686k after Steam's cut $464k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mixed	SimulationAutomobile Sim
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