How much revenue did CARSTEROIDS make?

$316–$849 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CARSTEROIDS sell?

Q: How many copies did CARSTEROIDS sell?

230 to 374 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 230–374; $316–$849 after Steam's cut $574–$1k before the cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Thin evidence: 8 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 CARSTEROIDS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CARSTEROIDS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–4.1M

best case 3.8M (Brotato)

Games like CARSTEROIDS

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–4.1M copies

≈ $7.6M–$18.1M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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: Brotato at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 188 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
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 52 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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