How many copies did TrackMania Nations Forever sell?

1.5M to 2.5M copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did TrackMania Nations Forever make?

TrackMania Nations Forever is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is TrackMania Nations Forever?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1.5M–2.5M; from 24k 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 TrackMania Nations Forever and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TrackMania Nations Forever's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–29.5M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like TrackMania Nations Forever

A typical game among these

≈ 4.8M–29.5M copies

≈ $70.0M–$139.5M after Steam's cut

from ~239k 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 Racing (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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 47k reviews in their first month; the range was 115 to 122k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (4 of 8) and Automobile Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 1 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 70 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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Assetto Corsa 2014	Est. copies ≈ 9.8M–15.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $53.8M–$144.6M after Steam's cut $97.8M–$222.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	175k reviews Very Positive	RacingAutomobile Sim
Rocket League® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 28.3M–46.0M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	580k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerFootball (Soccer)
Crab Game 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	151k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorMultiplayer
BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.5M–33.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut $256.7M–$584.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	421k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Forza Horizon 4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	303k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Scrap Mechanic 2026	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.3M–$65.4M after Steam's cut $44.2M–$100.6M before Steam's cut	$28.99	123k reviews Very Positive	BuildingSandbox
Stumble Guys 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	139k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale