How much revenue did Drifting with Maxwell Cat: The Game make?

Drifting with Maxwell Cat: The Game is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Drifting with Maxwell Cat: The Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Drifting with Maxwell Cat: The Game sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 128 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; from 128 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 Drifting with Maxwell Cat: The Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drifting with Maxwell Cat: The Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.5M

best case 14.9M (Call of Duty®: Black Ops III)

Games like Drifting with Maxwell Cat: The Game

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–1.5M copies

≈ $8.0M–$12.5M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Call of Duty®: Black Ops III at ≈ 11.4M–18.4M copies, ≈ $187.3M–$503.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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