How much revenue did Speed Stars make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Speed Stars sell?

Q: How many copies did Speed Stars sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 241 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 241 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 Speed Stars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Speed Stars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–53k

best case 104k (Ragnarock)

Games like Speed Stars

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–53k copies

≈ $25k–$172k after Steam's cut

from ~741 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Racing (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Ragnarock at ≈ 80k–129k copies, ≈ $547k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 163 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 64 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (3 of 8) and Rhythm (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, 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 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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Waveform 2012	Est. copies ≈ 135k–220k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $134k–$306k before the cut	$1.99	2k reviews Very Positive	IndiePuzzle
3dSen VR 2025	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $35k–$95k after Steam's cut $64k–$147k before the cut	$24.99	208 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction
Yakiniku simulator 2022	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before the cut	$4.99	443 reviews Very Positive	CasualCooking
Hyperun 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut	$5.99	85 reviews Very Positive	RacingSports
Ragnarock 2021	Est. copies ≈ 80k–129k 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $547k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $995k–$2.3M before the cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
NeverSynth 2022	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $92k–$247k after Steam's cut $167k–$381k before the cut	$12.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingSports
Synthwave Burnout 2025	Est. copies ≈ 27k–44k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $98k–$262k after Steam's cut $178k–$404k before the cut	$12.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionRacing
SUPER 56 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before the cut	$6.99	174 reviews Very Positive	FunnyHidden Object