How much revenue did Pro Cycling Manager 2023 make?

$175k–$471k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pro Cycling Manager 2023 sell?

Q: How many copies did Pro Cycling Manager 2023 sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 642 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $175k–$471k after Steam's cut $318k–$724k before Steam's cut; from 642 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 Pro Cycling Manager 2023 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pro Cycling Manager 2023's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.7M–10.4M

best case 9.9M (Forza Horizon 4)

Games like Pro Cycling Manager 2023

A typical game among these

≈ 4.7M–10.4M copies

≈ $62.9M–$156.0M after Steam's cut

from ~189k 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: Forza Horizon 4 at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 10k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Racing (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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