How much revenue did Pacific Drive make?

$8.2M–$22.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pacific Drive sell?

Q: How many copies did Pacific Drive sell?

662k to 1.1M copies, based on its 27k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 662k–1.1M; $8.2M–$22.0M after Steam's cut $14.9M–$33.9M before the cut; from 27k 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 Pacific Drive out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pacific Drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–602k

best case 5.8M (Mad Max)

Games like Pacific Drive

The middle of these games

≈ 44k–602k copies

≈ $142k–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mad Max at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.2M–$65.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Driving (5 of 8) and Survival (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Vehicular Combat, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Mad Max 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M 44x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.2M–$65.1M after Steam's cut $44.0M–$100.1M before the cut	$19.99	90k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldVehicular Combat
No Time 2019	Est. copies ≈ 63k–103k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $227k–$609k after Steam's cut $412k–$937k before the cut	$12.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Time TravelTime Manipulation
Jalopy 2018	Est. copies ≈ 344k–559k 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before the cut	$14.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	Automobile SimDriving
FAR: Lone Sails 2018	Est. copies ≈ 802k–1.3M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.7M before the cut	$14.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AtmosphericAdventure
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator 2024	Est. copies ≈ 48k–78k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $264k–$711k after Steam's cut $481k–$1.1M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessTrains
Just Ride：Apparent Horizon 狂飙：极限视界 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5k–9k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before the cut	$19.99	188 reviews Mostly Positive	ViolentAction
The Last Hope 2016	Est. copies ≈ 41k–67k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $22k–$60k after Steam's cut $41k–$93k before the cut	$1.99	986 reviews Mostly Negative	ExplorationAction Roguelike
Last Holiday 2023	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $93k–$250k after Steam's cut $169k–$385k before the cut	$29.99	455 reviews Mixed	Early AccessRealistic