How much revenue did JellyCar Worlds make?

$58k–$157k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did JellyCar Worlds sell?

Q: How many copies did JellyCar Worlds sell?

27k to 43k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–43k; $58k–$157k after Steam's cut $106k–$242k before the cut; from 1k 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 JellyCar Worlds out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including JellyCar Worlds's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k

best case 1.5M (DDNet)

Games like JellyCar Worlds

The middle of these games

≈ 2k copies

≈ $2k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~60 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: DDNet at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 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 24 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 749.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer, priced around $4.
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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