How much revenue did Rally 9000 make?

$750–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rally 9000 sell?

Q: How many copies did Rally 9000 sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $750–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 11 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 Rally 9000 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rally 9000's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–1.9M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Rally 9000

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–1.9M copies

≈ $19.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Driving (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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).

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POLYGON 2020	Est. copies ≈ 918k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFPS
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M 28x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.5M–33.4M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut $256.7M–$584.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	421k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
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The Long Drive 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.2M–$19.2M after Steam's cut $13.0M–$29.6M before Steam's cut	$15.99	57k reviews Very Positive	DrivingOpen World
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