How much revenue did Mad Max make?

$24.3M–$65.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mad Max sell?

Q: How many copies did Mad Max sell?

4.4M to 7.2M copies, based on its 91k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.4M–7.2M; $24.3M–$65.4M after Steam's cut $44.2M–$100.6M before Steam's cut; from 91k reviews (Very 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 Mad Max and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mad Max's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–313k

best case 3.2M (Crossout)

Games like Mad Max

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–313k copies

≈ $235k–$543k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crossout at ≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 520 reviews in their first month; the range was 25 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Post-apocalyptic (6 of 8) and Vehicular Combat (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third Person + Gun Customization.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Crossout 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M 36x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	70k reviews Mostly Positive	Third PersonGun Customization
RAGE 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 492k–799k 8.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut $9.8M–$22.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	17k reviews Mixed	ActionFPS
Insect Swarm 2024	Est. copies ≈ 67k–108k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $128k–$344k after Steam's cut $232k–$529k before Steam's cut	$6.99	3k reviews Very Positive	FlightShooter
Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina 2014	Est. copies ≈ 154k–251k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $339k–$911k after Steam's cut $616k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$7.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Post-apocalypticAutomobile Sim
Alien Dawn 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before Steam's cut	$13.99	101 reviews Mixed	Early AccessCo-op
METAL MAX Xeno Reborn 2022	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $127k–$342k after Steam's cut $231k–$526k before Steam's cut	$39.99	466 reviews Mixed	DogJRPG
Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer 2025	Est. copies ≈ 31k–50k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $160k–$431k after Steam's cut $291k–$663k before Steam's cut	$18.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyVehicular Combat
Darkwind 2014	Est. copies ≈ 27k–44k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	479 reviews Mixed	Turn-Based TacticsVehicular Combat