How much revenue did Retrowave Drive make?

$217–$584 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retrowave Drive sell?

Q: How many copies did Retrowave Drive sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $217–$584 after Steam's cut $395–$898 before Steam's cut; from 16 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 Retrowave Drive and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retrowave Drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–16k

best case 527k (Race The Sun)

Games like Retrowave Drive

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–16k copies

≈ $53k–$70k after Steam's cut

from ~412 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Race The Sun at ≈ 402k–653k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 256 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 384.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (8 of 8) and Driving (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Procedural Generation + Runner, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Procedural Generation + Perma Death + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Race The Sun 2013	Est. copies ≈ 402k–653k 15x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Procedural GenerationRunner
Switchcars 2021	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $29k–$77k after Steam's cut $52k–$118k before Steam's cut	$8.99	467 reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeAction
Summer Catchers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$121k before Steam's cut	$8.99	412 reviews Very Positive	RunnerPixel Graphics
Sunset Drive 1986 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	247 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessRunner
Buck Up And Drive! 2022	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $38k–$102k after Steam's cut $69k–$157k before Steam's cut	$7.99	697 reviews Very Positive	RacingAction
Cyber Driver 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$0.99	158 reviews Very Positive	Automobile SimCasual
Neodash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before Steam's cut	$15.99	519 reviews Very Positive	RacingAction
Getaway Storm 2020	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	162 reviews Very Positive	ActionRacing