How much revenue did Need for Speed™ Unbound make?

$28.7M–$77.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Need for Speed™ Unbound sell?

Q: How many copies did Need for Speed™ Unbound sell?

1.5M to 2.4M copies, based on its 60k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.5M–2.4M; $28.7M–$77.2M after Steam's cut $52.2M–$118.8M before the cut; from 60k 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 Need for Speed™ Unbound out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Need for Speed™ Unbound's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.7M–49.8M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Need for Speed™ Unbound

The middle of these games

≈ 9.7M–49.8M copies

≈ $107.6M–$245.8M after Steam's cut

from ~360k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (6 of 8) and Driving (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2021, 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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