How much revenue did Please Fix The Road make?

$20k–$53k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Please Fix The Road sell?

Q: How many copies did Please Fix The Road sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 289 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$81k before Steam's cut; from 289 reviews (Mostly 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 Please Fix The Road and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Please Fix The Road's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 181k–489k

best case 1.0M (Poly Bridge)

Games like Please Fix The Road

A typical game among these

≈ 181k–489k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Poly Bridge at ≈ 788k–1.3M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2021, 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).

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