How much revenue did TRAIN CREW make?

$56k–$149k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TRAIN CREW sell?

Q: How many copies did TRAIN CREW sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 479 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $56k–$149k after Steam's cut $101k–$230k before the cut; from 479 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 TRAIN CREW out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TRAIN CREW's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–141k

best case 269k (Train Sim World® 2)

Games like TRAIN CREW

The middle of these games

≈ 34k–141k copies

≈ $322k–$1.7M 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Train Sim World® 2 at ≈ 205k–333k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 444 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 54 to 986.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Realistic (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Trains, priced around $20.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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