How much revenue did SimRail - The Railway Simulator make?

$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SimRail - The Railway Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did SimRail - The Railway Simulator sell?

136k to 221k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 136k–221k; $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M 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 SimRail - The Railway Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SimRail - The Railway Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 521k–811k

best case 1.2M (Transport Fever 2)

Games like SimRail - The Railway Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 521k–811k copies

≈ $4.5M–$5.3M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Transport Fever 2 at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies, ≈ $10.3M–$27.6M 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 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry City Builder; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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