How much revenue did Driving Is Hard make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Driving Is Hard sell?

Q: How many copies did Driving Is Hard sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 264 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before the cut; from 264 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Driving Is Hard out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Driving Is Hard's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 54k–430k

best case 3.7M (Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy)

Games like Driving Is Hard

The middle of these games

≈ 54k–430k copies

≈ $207k–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 710 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 82 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (5 of 8) and Psychological Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Physics, priced around $8.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 43 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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