How much revenue did Rally 9000 make?

$750–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rally 9000 sell?

Q: How many copies did Rally 9000 sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $750–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 11 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 Rally 9000 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rally 9000's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–1.9M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Rally 9000

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–1.9M copies

≈ $19.5M–$20.5M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Driving (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2022, 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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