How much revenue did Railroader make?

$726k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Railroader sell?

Q: How many copies did Railroader sell?

88k to 143k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 88k–143k; $726k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Railroader out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Railroader's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 151k–316k

best case 1.2M (Transport Fever 2)

Games like Railroader

The middle of these games

≈ 151k–316k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.1M 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: Transport Fever 2 at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies, ≈ $10.3M–$27.6M 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 748 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 619 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Trains (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Trains, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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Railway Empire 2018	Est. copies ≈ 295k–480k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before the cut	$29.99	10k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Train Sim World® 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 99k–162k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $821k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut	$29.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	TrainsSimulation
Transport Fever 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 934k–1.5M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut $18.7M–$42.5M before the cut	$39.99	32k reviews Very Positive	SimulationStrategy
Train Sim World® 2020 2017	Est. copies ≈ 241k–391k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $859k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before the cut	$12.99	7k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationTrains
OpenTTD 2021	Est. copies ≈ 420k–683k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Very Positive	SimulationBuilding
Train Sim World® 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 115k–186k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $789k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before the cut	$24.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationTrains
Train Sim World® 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 205k–333k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.7M before the cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	SimulationTrains
Train Simulator Classic 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.8M–$31.8M after Steam's cut $21.5M–$48.9M before the cut	$29.99	29k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationTrains