How much revenue did Mini Motorways make?

$1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mini Motorways sell?

Q: How many copies did Mini Motorways sell?

604k to 981k copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 604k–981k; $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.9M before the cut; from 24k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Mini Motorways out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mini Motorways's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 491k–937k

best case 2.0M (PC Building Simulator)

Games like Mini Motorways

The middle of these games

≈ 491k–937k copies

≈ $3.9M–$6.1M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: PC Building Simulator at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $8.4M–$22.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Education, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Immersive Sim + Sandbox + 3D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2026, 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 70 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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