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How big is Circuit Thunder®?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 124–202
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Circuit Thunder® and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Circuit Thunder®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–41k
best case 1.7M (Rivals of Aether)
Games like Circuit Thunder®

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–41k copies

≈ $153k–$522k after Steam's cut

from ~783 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rivals of Aether at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.2M 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 209 reviews in their first month; the range was 116 to 229.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share 2D Fighter (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Fighting + 2D Fighter, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Competitive + Indie + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
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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