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How many copies did Mad Tracks sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 8k–13k
$22k–$58k after Steam's cut $39k–$90k before Steam's cut
from 318 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 Mad Tracks and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mad Tracks's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 327k–713k
best case 2.0M (Need for Speed™ Unbound)
Games like Mad Tracks

A typical game among these

≈ 327k–713k copies

≈ $2.3M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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™ Unbound at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $29.0M–$77.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 779 to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Racing (8 of 8) and Automobile Sim (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $70.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2007 to 2025, 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 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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