How much revenue did Drive Beyond Horizons make?

$3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Drive Beyond Horizons sell?

Q: How many copies did Drive Beyond Horizons sell?

497k to 808k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 497k–808k; $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.1M before the cut; from 20k 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 Drive Beyond Horizons out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drive Beyond Horizons's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–6.0M

best case 26.7M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Drive Beyond Horizons

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–6.0M copies

≈ $15.4M–$79.4M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.3M–33.0M copies, ≈ $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (6 of 8) and Driving (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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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