How much revenue did BeamNG.drive make?

$141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BeamNG.drive sell?

Q: How many copies did BeamNG.drive sell?

20.5M to 33.4M copies, based on its 421k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20.5M–33.4M; $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut $256.7M–$584.0M before Steam's cut; from 421k 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 BeamNG.drive and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BeamNG.drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–4.1M

best case 12.8M (Assetto Corsa)

Games like BeamNG.drive

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–4.1M copies

≈ $18.3M–$32.7M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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: Assetto Corsa at ≈ 9.8M–15.9M copies, ≈ $53.8M–$144.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Automobile Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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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