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 263 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 Steam's cut; from 263 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 Driving Is Hard and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Driving Is Hard's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 54k–432k

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

Games like Driving Is Hard

A typical game among these

≈ 54k–432k copies

≈ $208k–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 709 reviews in their first month; the range was 82 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Physics (5 of 8) and Psychological Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Physics, priced around $8.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 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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