How much revenue did Euro Truck Simulator 2 make?

$328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Euro Truck Simulator 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Euro Truck Simulator 2 sell?

59.7M to 97.0M copies, based on its 944k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 59.7M–97.0M; $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut $596.4M–$1356.8M before Steam's cut; from 944k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Euro Truck Simulator 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Euro Truck Simulator 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 424k–1.2M

best case 10.7M (American Truck Simulator)

Games like Euro Truck Simulator 2

A typical game among these

≈ 424k–1.2M copies

≈ $5.2M–$12.3M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: American Truck Simulator at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $45.0M–$120.9M 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 826 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Driving (7 of 8) and Realistic (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automobile Sim + Driving, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Automobile Sim + America + Moddable; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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).

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