How much revenue did Drive Buy make?

Drive Buy is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Drive Buy sell?

Q: How many copies did Drive Buy sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; from 21 reviews (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 Drive Buy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drive Buy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 130k–1.6M

best case 3.1M (Gang Beasts)

Games like Drive Buy

A typical game among these

≈ 130k–1.6M copies

≈ $712k–$9.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gang Beasts at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 356 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 778.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (7 of 8) and Party (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Physics + Party Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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The Jackbox Party Pack 7 2020	Est. copies ≈ 123k–200k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Party GameParty
Gang Beasts 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.8M 9.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's cut $23.2M–$52.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	68k reviews Very Positive	FunnyPhysics
Rubber Bandits 2021	Est. copies ≈ 179k–291k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $893k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Family FriendlyParty Game
Turbo Golf Racing 2024	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $71k–$192k after Steam's cut $130k–$295k before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Very Positive	RacingGolf
The Jackbox Party Pack 3 2016	Est. copies ≈ 278k–451k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Local MultiplayerTrivia
Caravan Chaos 2021	Est. copies ≈ 521–846 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $715–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$4.99	21 reviews Positive	Party GameLocal Multiplayer
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 7.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.8M–$38.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	54k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes 2015	Est. copies ≈ 838k–1.4M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.3M after Steam's cut $6.3M–$14.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opLocal Multiplayer