How much revenue did FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction make?

$3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction sell?

Q: How many copies did FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction sell?

274k to 446k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 274k–446k; $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.5M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly Negative)

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 FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–640k

best case 5.0M (Need for Speed™ Heat)

Games like FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–640k copies

≈ $176k–$1.7M 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: Need for Speed™ Heat at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $73.1M–$196.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 53 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 53 to 4k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (8 of 8) and Combat Racing (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $70.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
FlatOut 2007	Est. copies ≈ 420k–682k 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $865k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before the cut	$7.49	7k reviews Very Positive	Combat RacingRacing
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 690k–1.1M 9.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $947k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before the cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity 2017	Est. copies ≈ 80k–130k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $661k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut	$29.99	2k reviews Mixed	RacingMultiplayer
Need for Speed™ Heat 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M 103x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $73.1M–$196.5M after Steam's cut $132.9M–$302.3M before the cut	$69.99	153k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
GENSOU Skydrift 2019	Est. copies ≈ 18k–29k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $120k–$321k after Steam's cut $217k–$494k before the cut	$23.99	629 reviews Very Positive	Combat RacingRacing
Road Rage 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before the cut	$9.99	89 reviews Mostly Negative	ActionRacing
FAST & FURIOUS CROSSROADS 2020	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	161 reviews Mixed	ActionRacing
DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing 2023	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $71k–$191k after Steam's cut $129k–$293k before the cut	$39.99	260 reviews Mixed	RacingAction