How much revenue did Waves Running Simulator make?

$517–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Waves Running Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Waves Running Simulator sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $517–$1k after Steam's cut $940–$2k before the cut; from 19 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 Waves Running Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Waves Running Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–95k

best case 574k (F1® 23)

Games like Waves Running Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 14k–95k copies

≈ $135k–$737k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: F1® 23 at ≈ 437k–710k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 677 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Racing.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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