How much revenue did TRAIN CREW make?

$57k–$152k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TRAIN CREW sell?

Q: How many copies did TRAIN CREW sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 488 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before Steam's cut; from 488 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 TRAIN CREW and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TRAIN CREW's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–141k

best case 269k (Train Sim World® 2)

Games like TRAIN CREW

A typical game among these

≈ 34k–141k copies

≈ $323k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Train Sim World® 2 at ≈ 205k–333k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 445 reviews in their first month; the range was 54 to 985.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Realistic (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Trains, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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