How much revenue did Roundabout make?

$96k–$258k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Roundabout sell?

Q: How many copies did Roundabout sell?

35k to 57k copies, based on its 623 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 35k–57k; $96k–$258k after Steam's cut $174k–$396k before Steam's cut; from 623 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 Roundabout and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Roundabout's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 478k–2.7M

best case 3.8M (My Summer Car)

Games like Roundabout

A typical game among these

≈ 478k–2.7M copies

≈ $1.7M–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: My Summer Car at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 84k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automobile Sim (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automobile Sim + Simulation, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2025, and 3 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 79 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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My Summer Car 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	118k reviews Very Positive	Automobile SimSimulation
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