How much revenue did Transport Fever make?

$3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Transport Fever sell?

Q: How many copies did Transport Fever sell?

451k to 733k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 451k–733k; $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.4M before the cut; from 11k 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 Transport Fever out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Transport Fever's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–510k

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Transport Fever

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–510k copies

≈ $188k–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 451 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (7 of 8) and Sandbox (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 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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