How much revenue did Road Maintenance Simulator make?

$34k–$91k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Road Maintenance Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Road Maintenance Simulator sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 199 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $34k–$91k after Steam's cut $62k–$140k before Steam's cut; from 199 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 Road Maintenance Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Road Maintenance Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.3M–36.5M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Road Maintenance Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 10.3M–36.5M copies

≈ $167.6M–$272.3M after Steam's cut

from ~293k 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 Simulation (7 of 8) and Realistic (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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