How much revenue did BeamNG.drive make?

$139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BeamNG.drive sell?

Q: How many copies did BeamNG.drive sell?

20.3M to 33.0M copies, based on its 416k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20.3M–33.0M; $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut $253.8M–$577.4M before the cut; from 416k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 BeamNG.drive out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BeamNG.drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–4.1M

best case 12.7M (Assetto Corsa)

Games like BeamNG.drive

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–4.1M copies

≈ $18.2M–$32.6M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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: Assetto Corsa at ≈ 9.7M–15.8M copies, ≈ $53.4M–$143.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Automobile Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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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