How much revenue did Music Racer make?

$60k–$162k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Music Racer sell?

Q: How many copies did Music Racer sell?

110k to 179k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 110k–179k; $60k–$162k after Steam's cut $110k–$250k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Music Racer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Music Racer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 234k–445k

best case 921k (AudioSurf)

Games like Music Racer

A typical game among these

≈ 234k–445k copies

≈ $715k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: AudioSurf at ≈ 702k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (7 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Rhythm, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2018, 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 38 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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MUSYNX 2018	Est. copies ≈ 207k–336k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $227k–$610k after Steam's cut $413k–$939k before Steam's cut	$3.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RhythmMusic
Audiosurf 2 2015	Est. copies ≈ 295k–480k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	6k reviews Very Positive	MusicRhythm
Beat Hazard 2010	Est. copies ≈ 471k–765k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RhythmMusic-Based Procedural Generation
Intralism 2016	Est. copies ≈ 201k–326k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $165k–$444k after Steam's cut $300k–$682k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Very Positive	MusicRhythm
AudioSurf 2008	Est. copies ≈ 702k–1.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MusicRhythm
Melody's Escape 2016	Est. copies ≈ 200k–325k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $998k–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Music-Based Procedural GenerationRhythm
Riff Racer - Race Your Music! 2016	Est. copies ≈ 86k–139k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	RacingMusic
Audioshield 2016	Est. copies ≈ 114k–185k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $626k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	IndieVR