How much revenue did WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship make?

$501k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship sell?

Q: How many copies did WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship sell?

61k to 99k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 61k–99k; $501k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $911k–$2.1M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–156k

best case 140k (WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship)

Games like WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship

The middle of these games

≈ 39k–156k copies

≈ $213k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship at ≈ 106k–173k copies, ≈ $878k–$2.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 166 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 52 to 566.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (8 of 8) and Driving (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Driving, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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