How much revenue did Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition sell?

131k to 213k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 131k–213k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before the cut; from 5k 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 Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–2k

best case 7k (Starters Orders 7 Horse Racing)

Games like Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–2k copies

≈ $7k–$11k after Steam's cut

from ~44 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Starters Orders 7 Horse Racing at ≈ 5k–8k copies, ≈ $49k–$131k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 40 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Immersive Sim (7 of 8) and Racing (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horses + Simulation, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Grand Strategy + Strategy + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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