How much revenue did Road 96: Mile 0 make?

$190k–$511k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Road 96: Mile 0 sell?

Q: How many copies did Road 96: Mile 0 sell?

53k to 87k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 53k–87k; $190k–$511k after Steam's cut $345k–$786k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Road 96: Mile 0 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Road 96: Mile 0's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 217k–296k

best case 857k (Road 96 🛣️)

Games like Road 96: Mile 0

A typical game among these

≈ 217k–296k copies

≈ $883k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Road 96 🛣️ at ≈ 653k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.6M–$9.6M after Steam's cut. 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with First-Person + 1990's, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Colorful + First-Person + 1990's; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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