How much revenue did Railroads Online make?

$1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Railroads Online sell?

Q: How many copies did Railroads Online sell?

149k to 243k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149k–243k; $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Mostly 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 Railroads Online out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Railroads Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–170k

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Railroads Online

The middle of these games

≈ 131k–170k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies. 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 8 to 986.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Trains (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime. The breakout hits carry Action + Multiplayer + Crime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Grand Theft Auto V Legacy 2015	Est. copies ≈ 101.3M–164.6M 448x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.1M reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
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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
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Hypertrain 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut	$8.99	44 reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationRacing
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