How much revenue did Need for Speed™ Most Wanted make?

$3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Need for Speed™ Most Wanted sell?

Q: How many copies did Need for Speed™ Most Wanted sell?

687k to 1.1M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 687k–1.1M; $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.6M before the cut; from 28k reviews (Mostly 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 Need for Speed™ Most Wanted out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Need for Speed™ Most Wanted's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.5M–43.9M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Need for Speed™ Most Wanted

The middle of these games

≈ 9.5M–43.9M copies

≈ $308.7M–$504.6M after Steam's cut

from ~303k reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (3 of 3) and Driving (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2021, 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.4M–96.6M 3.1x 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
Forza Horizon 4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	303k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Forza Horizon 5 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6.9M–11.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$307.2M after Steam's cut $207.7M–$472.6M before the cut	$59.99	279k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World