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How many copies did Lonely Mountains: Downhill sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 89k–145k
$491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $892k–$2.0M before Steam's cut
from 3k 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 Lonely Mountains: Downhill and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lonely Mountains: Downhill's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–531k
best case 1.4M (MX Bikes)
Games like Lonely Mountains: Downhill

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–531k copies

≈ $345k–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: MX Bikes at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $10.4M–$27.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 195 reviews in their first month; the range was 187 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Racing (6 of 8) and Sports (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Motocross + Motorbike, priced around $35.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2008 to 2022, 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 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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13x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$34.99
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≈ 694k–1.1M
8.6x vs typical
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