How much revenue did Drifters Don't Brake make?

$176–$475 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Drifters Don't Brake sell?

Q: How many copies did Drifters Don't Brake sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $176–$475 after Steam's cut $320–$730 before Steam's cut; from 13 reviews (Mixed)

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 Drifters Don't Brake and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drifters Don't Brake's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–9.8M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Drifters Don't Brake

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–9.8M copies

≈ $14.7M–$201.9M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automobile Sim (7 of 8) and Driving (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2019, 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 36 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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