How much revenue did SWORDCAR make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SWORDCAR sell?

Q: How many copies did SWORDCAR sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 96 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut; from 96 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 SWORDCAR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SWORDCAR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 151k–607k

best case 5.8M (Mad Max)

Games like SWORDCAR

The middle of these games

≈ 151k–607k copies

≈ $2.5M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

Best case: Mad Max at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.2M–$65.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 376 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Driving (7 of 8) and Racing (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Vehicular Combat, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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