How much revenue did Absolute Drift make?

$641k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Absolute Drift sell?

Q: How many copies did Absolute Drift sell?

156k to 253k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 156k–253k; $641k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut; from 3k 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 Absolute Drift out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Absolute Drift's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.3M–23.2M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Absolute Drift

The middle of these games

≈ 9.3M–23.2M copies

≈ $135.2M–$257.5M after Steam's cut

from ~292k reviews

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

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Driving (6 of 6) and Automobile Sim (5 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2021, 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 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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