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How many copies did Car For Sale Simulator 2023 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 517k–840k
$2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before the cut
from 21k reviews (Mostly 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 Car For Sale Simulator 2023 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Car For Sale Simulator 2023's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–642k
best case 2.7M (Supermarket Simulator)
Games like Car For Sale Simulator 2023

The middle of these games

≈ 63k–642k copies

≈ $645k–$8.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Supermarket Simulator at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 114 to 69k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Driving (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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