How much revenue did Death Rally make?

$158k–$424k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Rally sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Rally sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 909 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $158k–$424k after Steam's cut $287k–$653k before Steam's cut; from 909 reviews (Mostly 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 Death Rally and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Rally's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–69k

best case 281k (Burnout™ Paradise Remastered)

Games like Death Rally

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–69k copies

≈ $39k–$305k after Steam's cut

from ~487 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: Burnout™ Paradise Remastered at ≈ 214k–348k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 73 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 902.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (7 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Arcade, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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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