How much revenue did NIMBY Rails make?

$317k–$851k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NIMBY Rails sell?

Q: How many copies did NIMBY Rails sell?

58k to 94k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–94k; $317k–$851k after Steam's cut $576k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 NIMBY Rails and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NIMBY Rails's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 512k–4.9M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like NIMBY Rails

A typical game among these

≈ 512k–4.9M copies

≈ $5.7M–$70.5M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut.

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 489 to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Economy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.7M–97.0M 38x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut $596.4M–$1356.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	944k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
American Truck Simulator 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M 7.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $45.0M–$120.9M after Steam's cut $81.7M–$186.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	197k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Automobile SimDriving
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel 2021	Est. copies ≈ 242k–393k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessOpen World
OpenTTD 2021	Est. copies ≈ 422k–686k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Very Positive	SimulationBuilding
Transport Fever 2016	Est. copies ≈ 452k–734k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	11k reviews Very Positive	FlightCity Builder
Railway Empire 2018	Est. copies ≈ 296k–480k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	10k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Transport Fever 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 950k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut $19.0M–$43.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	33k reviews Very Positive	SimulationStrategy
Cities: Skylines II 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $31.5M–$84.7M after Steam's cut $57.3M–$130.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	92k reviews Mixed	City Builder Simulation