How much revenue did Train Valley make?

$463k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Train Valley sell?

Q: How many copies did Train Valley sell?

169k to 274k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 169k–274k; $463k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $842k–$1.9M before the cut; from 3k 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 Train Valley out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Train Valley's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 719k–1.0M

best case 4.7M (Prison Architect)

Games like Train Valley

The middle of these games

≈ 719k–1.0M copies

≈ $6.4M–$13.5M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Prison Architect at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies, ≈ $29.7M–$79.8M 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 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Building, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Base-Building + Colony Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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