How much revenue did Train Frontier Classic make?

$23k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Train Frontier Classic sell?

Q: How many copies did Train Frontier Classic sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 246 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $42k–$96k before Steam's cut; from 246 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 Train Frontier Classic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Train Frontier Classic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 370k–1.1M

best case 1.2M (Transport Fever 2)

Games like Train Frontier Classic

A typical game among these

≈ 370k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.9M–$13.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Transport Fever 2 at ≈ 950k–1.5M copies, ≈ $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Trains (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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OpenTTD 2021	Est. copies ≈ 422k–686k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Very Positive	SimulationBuilding
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Transport Fever 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 950k–1.5M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut $19.0M–$43.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	33k reviews Very Positive	SimulationStrategy
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Railway Empire 2018	Est. copies ≈ 296k–480k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	10k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
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