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How many copies did Hovercars 3077: Underground racing sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 967–2k
$2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut
from 39 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 Hovercars 3077: Underground racing and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hovercars 3077: Underground racing's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45k–178k
best case 699k (SimplePlanes)
Games like Hovercars 3077: Underground racing

A typical game among these

≈ 45k–178k copies

≈ $216k–$1.0M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SimplePlanes at ≈ 533k–865k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 503 reviews in their first month; the range was 175 to 778.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Racing (7 of 8) and Flight (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Flight + Sandbox, priced around $13.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2024, 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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