How much revenue did DIRT 5 make?

$2.9M–$7.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DIRT 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did DIRT 5 sell?

174k to 282k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174k–282k; $2.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut $5.2M–$11.9M before the cut; from 7k reviews (Mixed)

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 DIRT 5 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DIRT 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–251k

best case 237k (Horizon Chase Turbo)

Games like DIRT 5

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–251k copies

≈ $248k–$606k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Horizon Chase Turbo at ≈ 180k–293k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 56 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 235.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (8 of 8) and Sports (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Arcade.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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