How much revenue did Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game make?

$425k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game sell?

77k to 126k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 77k–126k; $425k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $773k–$1.8M before the cut; from 1k 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 Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–2.0M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–2.0M copies

≈ $14.1M–$15.9M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Automobile Sim (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (4 of 8) and Driving (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $12.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 79 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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Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M 25x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.4M–96.6M 23x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut $594.0M–$1351.4M before the cut	$19.99	940k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
Trailmakers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.6M before the cut	$24.99	39k reviews Very Positive	SpaceAction
Brick Rigs 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.1M–$21.7M after Steam's cut $14.7M–$33.4M before the cut	$19.99	59k reviews Very Positive	SandboxDestruction
Stumble Guys 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	138k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
DiRT Rally 2.0 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.7M before the cut	$19.99	48k reviews Very Positive	RacingAutomobile Sim
DiRT Rally 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	40k reviews Very Positive	RacingSimulation
City Car Driving 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $10.3M–$27.7M after Steam's cut $18.7M–$42.6M before the cut	$24.99	36k reviews Very Positive	SimulationDriving