How much revenue did Hard Driver make?

$183–$490 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hard Driver sell?

Q: How many copies did Hard Driver sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $183–$490 after Steam's cut $332–$754 before the cut; from 27 reviews (Mixed)

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 Hard Driver out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hard Driver's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 232k–468k

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Hard Driver

The middle of these games

≈ 232k–468k copies

≈ $1.1M–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 443 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Precision Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Difficult + Music; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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 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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