How much revenue did World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 make?

$100k–$269k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 sell?

Q: How many copies did World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 373 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $100k–$269k after Steam's cut $182k–$414k before the cut; from 373 reviews (Mostly 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 World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 635k–1.2M

best case 7.6M (Factorio)

Games like World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7

The middle of these games

≈ 635k–1.2M copies

≈ $5.7M–$19.0M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Factorio at ≈ 5.8M–9.4M copies, ≈ $56.0M–$150.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Trains (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Resource Management + Multiplayer + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, and 2 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 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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