How much revenue did City Gridlock make?

$28–$73 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City Gridlock sell?

Q: How many copies did City Gridlock sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$112 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 City Gridlock out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including City Gridlock's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 879–11k

best case 503k (Construction Simulator 2015)

Games like City Gridlock

The middle of these games

≈ 879–11k copies

≈ $17k–$64k after Steam's cut

from ~86 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Construction Simulator 2015 at ≈ 384k–623k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 327.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and City Builder (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Building, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Open World + Driving; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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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