How many copies has Hotshot Racing sold?

indielist estimates Hotshot Racing has sold between 92,742 and 216,398 units (median 154,570), derived from its 2,378 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Hotshot Racing?

Hotshot Racing was developed by Sumo Digital Ltd and published by Curve Games.

Who published Hotshot Racing?

Hotshot Racing was published by Curve Games, developed by Sumo Digital Ltd. See Curve Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Hotshot Racing released?

Hotshot Racing was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Hotshot Racing have on Steam?

Hotshot Racing has 2,378 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.

Is Hotshot Racing worth playing?

Steam players rate Hotshot Racing 77% positive across 2,378 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Hotshot Racing

Sep 10, 2020 Action $19.99

Developer Sumo Digital Ltd Publisher Curve Games

Profile updated May 2026

Hotshot Racing is an action-focused indie racer released in 2020. It has garnered 1,277 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher are currently unknown.

Hotshot Racing is a 2020 Action game developed by Sumo Digital Ltd and published by Curve Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,378 player reviews, 77% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Sumo Digital Ltd with publisher Curve Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 93,000 to 216,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Hotshot Racing can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,378

Positive

77%

Steam appid

609920

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 09:05 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

93K to 216K

units (median: 155K)

≈ $1.1M to $2.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

93K median 216K

+ How is this calculated?

2,378 reviews × NB(65) = 154,570 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_77%	0
final NB	65

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Hotshot Racing at roughly 93,000 to 216,000 copies, with a median around 155,000, derived from its 2,378 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

19 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 19 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-05.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Hotshot Racing sold?: indielist estimates Hotshot Racing has sold between 92,742 and 216,398 units (median 154,570), derived from its 2,378 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Hotshot Racing?: Hotshot Racing was developed by Sumo Digital Ltd and published by Curve Games.
Who published Hotshot Racing?: Hotshot Racing was published by Curve Games, developed by Sumo Digital Ltd. See Curve Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Hotshot Racing released?: Hotshot Racing was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Hotshot Racing have on Steam?: Hotshot Racing has 2,378 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.
Is Hotshot Racing worth playing?: Steam players rate Hotshot Racing 77% positive across 2,378 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Hotshot Racing can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Road Redemption, Serious Sam 3: BFE, Tetris® Effect: Connected, Vampire Survivors, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sumo Digital Ltd's other releases and Curve Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hotshot Racing sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Hotshot Racing page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.