How much revenue did Mad Max make?

$24.2M–$65.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mad Max sell?

Q: How many copies did Mad Max sell?

4.4M to 7.2M copies, based on its 90k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.4M–7.2M; $24.2M–$65.1M after Steam's cut $44.0M–$100.1M before the cut; from 90k reviews (Very 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 Mad Max out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mad Max's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–312k

best case 3.2M (Crossout)

Games like Mad Max

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–312k copies

≈ $232k–$541k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crossout at ≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 521 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 25 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Post-apocalyptic (6 of 8) and Vehicular Combat (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third Person + Gun Customization.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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 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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