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This action-adventure simulation game, released in 2019, has garnered 48,509 Steam reviews. Players experience a casual indie title focused on driving. Developer and publisher details are not yet imported.
Overview
The Long Drive is a 2019 Action game developed by Genesz and published by Genesz. On Steam it has gathered 49,742 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $16. The pairing of developer Genesz with publisher Genesz 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 2.2 million to 5.2 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, The Long Drive can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
49,742
Positive
88%
Steam appid
1017180
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
458
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.02.2M to 5.2M
units (median: 3.7M)
≈ $20.4M to $47.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 The Long Drive at roughly 2.2 million to 5.2 million copies, with a median around 3.7 million, derived from its 49,742 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $34.1M 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
54 observed days · window low $3.99Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $15.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
DrivingOpen WorldMultiplayerSurvivalAutomobile SimExplorationPost-apocalypticAdventureFirst-PersonRacingSimulationShooterSingleplayerHorrorEarly AccessSexual ContentIndieCasualRealisticPsychological Horror
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Long Drive sold?
- indielist estimates The Long Drive has sold between 2,238,390 and 5,222,910 units (median 3,730,650), derived from its 49,742 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Long Drive?
- The Long Drive was developed by Genesz and published by Genesz.
- Who published The Long Drive?
- The Long Drive was published by Genesz, developed by Genesz. See Genesz's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Long Drive released?
- The Long Drive was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does The Long Drive have on Steam?
- The Long Drive has 49,742 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is The Long Drive worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Long Drive 88% positive across 49,742 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 The Long Drive can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as My Summer Car, City Car Driving, The Forest, The Beast Inside, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Genesz's other releases and Genesz's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Long Drive 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 The Long Drive 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.
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- M
My Summer Car
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- C
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Shared tags: Simulation, Driving, Automobile Sim
- T
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- T
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- I
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