How much revenue did Road 96 🛣️ make?

$3.6M–$9.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Road 96 🛣️ sell?

Q: How many copies did Road 96 🛣️ sell?

653k to 1.1M copies, based on its 26k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 653k–1.1M; $3.6M–$9.6M after Steam's cut $6.5M–$14.8M before Steam's cut; from 26k 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 Road 96 🛣️ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Road 96 🛣️'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.9M–10.3M

best case 13.8M (Paladins®)

Games like Road 96 🛣️

A typical game among these

≈ 5.9M–10.3M copies

≈ $55.0M–$92.5M after Steam's cut

from ~154k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Paladins® at ≈ 10.5M–17.1M copies.

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 2 to 47k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (5 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hero Shooter + FPS.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Firewatch 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.9M–$61.5M after Steam's cut $41.6M–$94.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	100k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAtmospheric
Hell Let Loose 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $51.1M–$137.3M after Steam's cut $92.9M–$211.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	150k reviews Very Positive	ShooterRealistic
Sparedevil 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before Steam's cut	$11.99	154 reviews Very Positive	FPSAction
ULTRAKILL 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.1M–9.9M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.2M–$134.8M after Steam's cut $91.2M–$207.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	245k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Boomer ShooterFast-Paced
Paladins® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 10.5M–17.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	345k reviews Very Positive	Hero ShooterFree to Play
Far Cry 3 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.5M–13.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.6M–$125.4M after Steam's cut $84.8M–$192.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	134k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldFPS
FitnessVR 2023	Est. copies ≈ 372–605 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	15 reviews Mixed	SportsVR
Slime Rancher 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.8M–$80.2M after Steam's cut $54.2M–$123.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	158k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CuteExploration