How much revenue did Train Valley World make?

$41k–$111k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Train Valley World sell?

Q: How many copies did Train Valley World sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 302 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$170k before Steam's cut; from 302 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 Train Valley World and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Train Valley World's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 106k–417k

best case 1.2M (Transport Fever 2)

Games like Train Valley World

A typical game among these

≈ 106k–417k copies

≈ $797k–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Transport Fever 2 at ≈ 950k–1.5M copies, ≈ $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 302 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Trains (8 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Train Valley 2015	Est. copies ≈ 169k–275k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $465k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $845k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Replay ValueResource Management
Plan B: Terraform 2025	Est. copies ≈ 91k–148k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $400k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $726k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$15.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAutomation
Derail Valley 2019	Est. copies ≈ 283k–460k 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	10k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessTrains
Railway Empire 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 67k–108k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $915k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut	$49.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationStrategy
Mashinky 2018	Est. copies ≈ 86k–139k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $590k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessStrategy
Railbound 2022	Est. copies ≈ 48k–78k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $172k–$463k after Steam's cut $313k–$712k before Steam's cut	$12.99	2k reviews Very Positive	WholesomeTrains
OpenTTD 2021	Est. copies ≈ 422k–686k 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Very Positive	SimulationBuilding
Transport Fever 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 950k–1.5M 9.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut $19.0M–$43.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	33k reviews Very Positive	SimulationStrategy