How much revenue did Buck Up And Drive! make?

$38k–$102k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Buck Up And Drive! sell?

Q: How many copies did Buck Up And Drive! sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 697 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $38k–$102k after Steam's cut $69k–$157k before Steam's cut; from 697 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 Buck Up And Drive! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Buck Up And Drive!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–10.6M

best case 27.0M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Buck Up And Drive!

A typical game among these

≈ 4.8M–10.6M copies

≈ $99.2M–$212.7M after Steam's cut

from ~165k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.5M–33.4M copies, ≈ $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the range was 115 to 77k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (6 of 8) and Driving (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, 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 70 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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