City Car Driving
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City Car Driving is a 2016 racing simulation game. It has received 32,280 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher are not yet imported.
Overview
City Car Driving is a 2016 Indie game developed by Forward Development, Ltd. and published by Forward Global Group, Ltd.. On Steam it has gathered 35,748 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Forward Development, Ltd. with publisher Forward Global Group, Ltd. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.8 million to 4.3 million 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, City Car Driving can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
35,748
Positive
83%
Steam appid
493490
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
332
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.01.8M to 4.3M
units (median: 3.0M)
≈ $26.0M to $60.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 City Car Driving at roughly 1.8 million to 4.3 million copies, with a median around 3.0 million, derived from its 35,748 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $43.4M 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
53 observed days · window low $2.49Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-06-16.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 21:45 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Tags
SimulationDrivingAutomobile SimOpen WorldRealisticSurvival HorrorMultiplayerSingleplayerRacingVRFirst-PersonModdablePhysicsIndieFamily FriendlyPsychological HorrorEducationCasualAdventureHorror
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has City Car Driving sold?
- indielist estimates City Car Driving has sold between 1,823,148 and 4,254,012 units (median 3,038,580), derived from its 35,748 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed City Car Driving?
- City Car Driving was developed by Forward Development, Ltd. and published by Forward Global Group, Ltd..
- Who published City Car Driving?
- City Car Driving was published by Forward Global Group, Ltd., developed by Forward Development, Ltd.. See Forward Global Group, Ltd.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was City Car Driving released?
- City Car Driving was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does City Car Driving have on Steam?
- City Car Driving has 35,748 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is City Car Driving worth playing?
- Steam players rate City Car Driving 83% positive across 35,748 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like City Car Driving can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Assetto Corsa, The Long Drive, My Summer Car, Euro Truck Simulator 2, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Forward Development, Ltd.'s other releases and Forward Global Group, Ltd.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where City Car Driving 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 City Car Driving page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.
You might also like
Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.
- A
Assetto Corsa
Indie
Shared tags: Racing, Automobile Sim, Simulation
- T
The Long Drive
Action
Shared tags: Driving, Open World, Multiplayer
- M
My Summer Car
Indie
Shared tags: Automobile Sim, Simulation, Driving
- E
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Indie
Shared tags: Driving, Simulation, Open World
- T
The Coin Game
Adventure
Shared tags: Open World, Casual, Physics
- J
Job Simulator
Action
Shared tags: VR, Simulation, First-Person
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