How many copies did Sunset Drive 1986 sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 246 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Sunset Drive 1986 make?

Sunset Drive 1986 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Sunset Drive 1986?

Estimated owners: ≈ 6k–10k; from 246 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 Sunset Drive 1986 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunset Drive 1986's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 208k–341k

best case 506k (Retrowave)

Games like Sunset Drive 1986

The middle of these games

≈ 208k–341k copies

≈ $1.6M–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Retrowave at ≈ 385k–626k copies, ≈ $317k–$852k 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (6 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + 1980s, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Action + 1980s + Retro; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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Retrowave 2022	Est. copies ≈ 385k–626k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $317k–$852k after Steam's cut $576k–$1.3M before the cut	$2.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Racing1980s
Drift86 2019	Est. copies ≈ 213k–346k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $116k–$313k after Steam's cut $212k–$481k before the cut	$1.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RacingMultiplayer
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