How much revenue did The Drone Racing League Simulator make?

$425k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Drone Racing League Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did The Drone Racing League Simulator sell?

155k to 251k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 155k–251k; $425k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $773k–$1.8M before the cut; from 4k 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 The Drone Racing League Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Drone Racing League Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.9M–30.2M

best case 40.5M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like The Drone Racing League Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 7.9M–30.2M copies

≈ $61.4M–$235.2M after Steam's cut

from ~292k 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.9M–50.1M copies, ≈ $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 122k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (5 of 8) and Driving (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2026, and 1 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 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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