How much revenue did Neon Drive make?

$250k–$672k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Neon Drive sell?

Q: How many copies did Neon Drive sell?

91k to 148k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 91k–148k; $250k–$672k after Steam's cut $454k–$1.0M before Steam's cut; 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 Neon Drive and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Neon Drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 447k–3.2M

best case 10.7M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Neon Drive

A typical game among these

≈ 447k–3.2M copies

≈ $2.2M–$16.9M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 1980s (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.2M copies, ≈ $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 1980s (4 of 8) and Gore (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 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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