How much revenue did Sid Meier's Railroads! make?

$602k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sid Meier's Railroads! sell?

Q: How many copies did Sid Meier's Railroads! sell?

219k to 356k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 219k–356k; $602k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 Sid Meier's Railroads! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sid Meier's Railroads!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147k–561k

best case 1.2M (Transport Fever 2)

Games like Sid Meier's Railroads!

The middle of these games

≈ 147k–561k copies

≈ $1.5M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Transport Fever 2 at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies, ≈ $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Economy (8 of 8) and Management (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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