How much revenue did Pro Cycling Manager 2017 make?

$44k–$119k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pro Cycling Manager 2017 sell?

Q: How many copies did Pro Cycling Manager 2017 sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 470 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $44k–$119k after Steam's cut $81k–$184k before Steam's cut; from 470 reviews (Mostly 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 Pro Cycling Manager 2017 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pro Cycling Manager 2017's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–31k

best case 911k (Descenders)

Games like Pro Cycling Manager 2017

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–31k copies

≈ $240k–$327k after Steam's cut

from ~735 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Descenders at ≈ 694k–1.1M copies, ≈ $4.8M–$12.8M 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 193 reviews in their first month; the range was 187 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (8 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Pro Cycling Manager 2021 2021	Est. copies ≈ 16k–25k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $171k–$459k after Steam's cut $310k–$706k before Steam's cut	$39.99	626 reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationMultiplayer
Pro Cycling Manager 2020 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24k–38k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $130k–$350k after Steam's cut $237k–$539k before Steam's cut	$19.99	955 reviews Very Positive	SimulationMultiplayer
Lonely Mountains: Downhill 2019	Est. copies ≈ 89k–145k 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $892k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	BikesDifficult
Descenders 2019	Est. copies ≈ 694k–1.1M 33x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.8M–$12.8M after Steam's cut $8.7M–$19.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	24k reviews Very Positive	SportsRacing
Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame 2018	Est. copies ≈ 32k–52k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $177k–$476k after Steam's cut $322k–$733k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
Gym Simulator 24 2024	Est. copies ≈ 66k–106k 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $234k–$629k after Steam's cut $426k–$968k before Steam's cut	$12.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Immersive Sim
Pro Cycling Manager 2019 2019	Est. copies ≈ 21k–34k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $106k–$241k before Steam's cut	$9.99	735 reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
Pro Cycling Manager 2022 2022	Est. copies ≈ 18k–28k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $193k–$518k after Steam's cut $351k–$798k before Steam's cut	$39.99	707 reviews Very Positive	SimulationMultiplayer