How much revenue did NIMBY Rails make?

$314k–$844k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NIMBY Rails sell?

Q: How many copies did NIMBY Rails sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $314k–$844k after Steam's cut $571k–$1.3M before the cut; from 2k 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 NIMBY Rails out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NIMBY Rails's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 510k–4.9M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like NIMBY Rails

The middle of these games

≈ 510k–4.9M copies

≈ $5.7M–$70.0M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

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 490 to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Economy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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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Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.4M–96.6M 38x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut $594.0M–$1351.4M before the cut	$19.99	940k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
American Truck Simulator 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.2M 7.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $44.7M–$120.0M after Steam's cut $81.2M–$184.7M before the cut	$19.99	195k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Automobile SimDriving
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel 2021	Est. copies ≈ 239k–388k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before the cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessOpen World
OpenTTD 2021	Est. copies ≈ 420k–683k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Very Positive	SimulationBuilding
Transport Fever 2016	Est. copies ≈ 451k–733k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.4M before the cut	$29.99	11k reviews Very Positive	FlightCity Builder
Railway Empire 2018	Est. copies ≈ 295k–480k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before the cut	$29.99	10k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Transport Fever 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 934k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut $18.7M–$42.5M before the cut	$39.99	32k reviews Very Positive	SimulationStrategy
Cities: Skylines II 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $31.3M–$84.2M after Steam's cut $56.9M–$129.5M before the cut	$49.99	92k reviews Mixed	City Builder Simulation