How many copies did Downtown Drift sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 269 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Downtown Drift make?

Downtown Drift is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Downtown Drift?

Estimated owners: ≈ 8k–13k; from 269 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 Downtown Drift out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Downtown Drift's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–2.4M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Downtown Drift

The middle of these games

≈ 47k–2.4M copies

≈ $122k–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 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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