How much revenue did Mini Motorways make?

$1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mini Motorways sell?

Q: How many copies did Mini Motorways sell?

607k to 986k copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 607k–986k; $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.9M before Steam's cut; from 24k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Mini Motorways and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mini Motorways's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 505k–937k

best case 2.0M (PC Building Simulator)

Games like Mini Motorways

A typical game among these

≈ 505k–937k copies

≈ $3.9M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: PC Building Simulator at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $8.4M–$22.5M 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 Simulation (7 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Education, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Immersive Sim + Sandbox + 3D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, 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 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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