How much revenue did Railroads Online make?

$1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Railroads Online sell?

Q: How many copies did Railroads Online sell?

150k to 244k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 150k–244k; $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Railroads Online and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Railroads Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–171k

best case 133.2M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Railroads Online

A typical game among these

≈ 131k–171k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.5M–164.9M copies. 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 748 reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 985.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Trains (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime. The breakout hits carry Action + Multiplayer + Crime; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy 2015	Est. copies ≈ 101.5M–164.9M 449x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.1M reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Train Sim World® 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 205k–333k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	SimulationTrains
Train Sim World® 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 115k–187k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $789k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationTrains
Train Sim World® 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 100k–162k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $824k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	TrainsSimulation
Train Sim World® 5 2024	Est. copies ≈ 130k–212k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationAdventure
Hypertrain 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut	$8.99	44 reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationRacing
Railroader 2023	Est. copies ≈ 89k–144k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $732k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessSimulation
Metrogether Train Simulator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 645–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut	$17.99	26 reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationTrains