How much revenue did Circuit Superstars make?

$357k–$961k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Circuit Superstars sell?

Q: How many copies did Circuit Superstars sell?

65k to 106k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 65k–106k; $357k–$961k after Steam's cut $650k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Circuit Superstars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Circuit Superstars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 170k–231k

best case 968k (Need for Speed™)

Games like Circuit Superstars

A typical game among these

≈ 170k–231k copies

≈ $627k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Need for Speed™ at ≈ 737k–1.2M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Driving, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Driving + Automobile Sim + Racing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2020, 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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