How much revenue did Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 make?

$10.7M–$28.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 sell?

Q: How many copies did Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 sell?

2.0M to 3.2M copies, based on its 57k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.0M–3.2M; $10.7M–$28.8M after Steam's cut $19.5M–$44.4M before Steam's cut; from 57k 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 Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Car Mechanic Simulator 2018's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.6M–11.8M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Car Mechanic Simulator 2018

A typical game among these

≈ 6.6M–11.8M copies

≈ $40.6M–$184.4M after Steam's cut

from ~197k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M 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 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automobile Sim (7 of 8) and Driving (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Transportation + Moddable + Relaxing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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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Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.7M–97.0M 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut $596.4M–$1356.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	944k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation