How much revenue did Careening make?

$218–$585 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Careening sell?

Q: How many copies did Careening sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $218–$585 after Steam's cut $396–$900 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Careening and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Careening's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–17k

best case 466k (Haste)

Games like Careening

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–17k copies

≈ $31k–$61k after Steam's cut

from ~424 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Haste at ≈ 355k–577k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 223 reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Automobile Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fast-Paced + Female Protagonist, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Fast-Paced + Female Protagonist + 3D Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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