How much revenue did Retrowave Drive make?

$217–$584 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retrowave Drive sell?

Q: How many copies did Retrowave Drive sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $217–$584 after Steam's cut $395–$898 before the cut; from 16 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 Retrowave Drive out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retrowave Drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–16k

best case 527k (Race The Sun)

Games like Retrowave Drive

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–16k copies

≈ $53k–$70k after Steam's cut

from ~408 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Race The Sun at ≈ 401k–652k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M 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 257 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 384.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (8 of 8) and Driving (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Procedural Generation + Runner, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Procedural Generation + Perma Death + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, and none of them 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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Race The Sun 2013	Est. copies ≈ 401k–652k 16x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before the cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Procedural GenerationRunner
Switchcars 2021	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $29k–$77k after Steam's cut $52k–$118k before the cut	$8.99	467 reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeAction
Summer Catchers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $29k–$78k after Steam's cut $53k–$120k before the cut	$8.99	408 reviews Very Positive	RunnerPixel Graphics
Sunset Drive 1986 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	246 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessRunner
Buck Up And Drive! 2022	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $38k–$102k after Steam's cut $69k–$157k before the cut	$7.99	697 reviews Very Positive	RacingAction
Cyber Driver 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut	$0.99	156 reviews Very Positive	Automobile SimCasual
Neodash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before the cut	$15.99	519 reviews Very Positive	RacingAction
Getaway Storm 2020	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	159 reviews Very Positive	ActionRacing