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How many copies did MudRunner sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1.5M–2.5M
$8.3M–$22.3M after Steam's cut $15.1M–$34.4M before the cut
from 44k 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 MudRunner out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MudRunner's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 671k–734k
best case 1.8M (DiRT Rally 2.0)
Games like MudRunner

The middle of these games

≈ 671k–734k copies

≈ $4.2M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: DiRT Rally 2.0 at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Racing (7 of 8) and Automobile Sim (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Racing + Simulation, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry VR + Simulation + Offroad; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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