How much revenue did FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition make?

$2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition sell?

491k to 798k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 491k–798k; $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.2M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 540k–2.2M

best case 5.0M (Need for Speed™ Heat)

Games like FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 540k–2.2M copies

≈ $3.1M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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™ Heat at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $73.7M–$198.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 339 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (7 of 8) and Driving (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $70.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Need for Speed™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 737k–1.2M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut $11.1M–$25.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	30k reviews Mixed	RacingMultiplayer
FlatOut 2007	Est. copies ≈ 423k–688k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $872k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$7.49	7k reviews Very Positive	Combat RacingRacing
FlatOut 2 2006	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$16.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RacingCombat Racing
Crossout 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	70k reviews Mostly Positive	Third PersonGun Customization
SimplePlanes 2015	Est. copies ≈ 533k–865k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut	$12.99	11k reviews Very Positive	FlightSandbox
Need for Speed™ Heat 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M 8.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $73.7M–$198.2M after Steam's cut $134.0M–$304.9M before Steam's cut	$69.99	154k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered 2020	Est. copies ≈ 376k–610k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	15k reviews Very Positive	RacingDriving
Need for Speed™ Rivals 2020	Est. copies ≈ 265k–431k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingDriving