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How many copies did All Aboard! The Train Defense Express sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 9k–15k
$13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before Steam's cut
from 383 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 All Aboard! The Train Defense Express and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including All Aboard! The Train Defense Express's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39.2M–97.4M
best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like All Aboard! The Train Defense Express

A typical game among these

≈ 39.2M–97.4M copies

≈ $143.7M–$473.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1.1M reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Survival (6 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 to 2020, 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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