How much revenue did Speed Stars make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Speed Stars sell?

Q: How many copies did Speed Stars sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 244 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut; from 244 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 Speed Stars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Speed Stars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–46k

best case 104k (Ragnarock)

Games like Speed Stars

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–46k copies

≈ $25k–$132k after Steam's cut

from ~599 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Racing (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Ragnarock at ≈ 80k–129k copies, ≈ $547k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 163 reviews in their first month; the range was 63 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (3 of 8) and Rhythm (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 2 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).

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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Waveform 2012	Est. copies ≈ 135k–220k 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $134k–$306k before Steam's cut	$1.99	2k reviews Very Positive	IndiePuzzle
3dSen VR 2025	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $36k–$96k after Steam's cut $65k–$147k before Steam's cut	$24.99	209 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction
Yakiniku simulator 2022	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before Steam's cut	$4.99	445 reviews Very Positive	CasualCooking
Hyperun 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut	$5.99	85 reviews Very Positive	RacingSports
Ragnarock 2021	Est. copies ≈ 80k–129k 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $547k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $995k–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
NeverSynth 2022	Est. copies ≈ 19k–30k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $67k–$179k after Steam's cut $121k–$276k before Steam's cut	$12.99	752 reviews Mostly Positive	RacingSports
Synthwave Burnout 2025	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $71k–$191k after Steam's cut $129k–$294k before Steam's cut	$12.99	803 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionRacing
SUPER 56 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before Steam's cut	$6.99	175 reviews Very Positive	FunnyHidden Object