How much revenue did Unrailed! make?

$2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unrailed! sell?

Q: How many copies did Unrailed! sell?

489k to 794k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 489k–794k; $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.1M before the cut; from 20k reviews (Very 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 Unrailed! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unrailed!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 156k–378k

best case 567k (Choo-Choo Charles)

Games like Unrailed!

The middle of these games

≈ 156k–378k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Choo-Choo Charles at ≈ 432k–701k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 803 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Trains (7 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival Horror + Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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