How much revenue did Riff Racer - Race Your Music! make?

Riff Racer - Race Your Music! is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Riff Racer - Race Your Music! sell?

Q: How many copies did Riff Racer - Race Your Music! sell?

86k to 139k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–139k; from 2k 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 Riff Racer - Race Your Music! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Riff Racer - Race Your Music!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–445k

best case 921k (AudioSurf)

Games like Riff Racer - Race Your Music!

A typical game among these

≈ 148k–445k copies

≈ $266k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: AudioSurf at ≈ 702k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (8 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Rhythm, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2018, 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 38 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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Audioshield 2016	Est. copies ≈ 114k–185k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $626k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	IndieVR
Beat Hazard 2010	Est. copies ≈ 471k–765k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RhythmMusic-Based Procedural Generation
AudioSurf 2008	Est. copies ≈ 702k–1.1M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MusicRhythm
Symphony 2012	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $130k–$348k after Steam's cut $236k–$536k before Steam's cut	$4.99	1k reviews Very Positive	MusicIndie
Music Racer 2018	Est. copies ≈ 110k–179k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $60k–$162k after Steam's cut $110k–$250k before Steam's cut	$1.99	4k reviews Very Positive	MusicRhythm
Audiosurf 2 2015	Est. copies ≈ 295k–480k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	6k reviews Very Positive	MusicRhythm
音灵 INVAXION 2018	Est. copies ≈ 188k–305k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Mixed	MusicRhythm
OutDrive 2016	Est. copies ≈ 193k–313k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $159k–$426k after Steam's cut $288k–$656k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingIndie