How much revenue did Neon Drive make?

$249k–$669k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Neon Drive sell?

Q: How many copies did Neon Drive sell?

91k to 147k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 91k–147k; $249k–$669k after Steam's cut $453k–$1.0M before the cut; from 2k 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 Neon Drive out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Neon Drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 449k–3.2M

best case 10.6M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Neon Drive

The middle of these games

≈ 449k–3.2M copies

≈ $2.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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 1980s (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: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.1M copies, ≈ $22.2M–$59.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 1980s (4 of 8) and Gore (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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