How many copies has Wreckfest sold?

indielist estimates Wreckfest has sold between 1,489,776 and 3,476,144 units (median 2,482,960), derived from its 31,037 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Wreckfest?

Wreckfest was developed by Bugbear and published by THQ Nordic.

Who published Wreckfest?

Wreckfest was published by THQ Nordic, developed by Bugbear. See THQ Nordic's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Wreckfest released?

Wreckfest was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Wreckfest have on Steam?

Wreckfest has 31,037 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is Wreckfest worth playing?

Steam players rate Wreckfest 88% positive across 31,037 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.

Wreckfest

Jun 14, 2018 Action $29.99

Developer Bugbear Publisher THQ Nordic

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action racing with destruction and automobile sim elements, built around crashes, simulation, and multiplayer competition. Wreckfest launched in 2018 from developer bugbear and publisher thq-nordic, with 39,964 Steam reviews at 88% positive and a $29.99 initial price.

Wreckfest is a 2018 Action game developed by Bugbear and published by THQ Nordic. On Steam it has gathered 31,037 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 $30. The pairing of developer Bugbear with publisher THQ Nordic 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 1.5 million to 3.5 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, Wreckfest can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

31,037

Positive

88%

Steam appid

228380

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

159

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-02 12:45 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.5M to 3.5M

units (median: 2.5M)

≈ $25.5M to $59.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.5M median 3.5M

+ How is this calculated?

31,037 reviews × NB(80) = 2,482,960 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$30	+5
positive_88%	+10
final NB	80

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 Wreckfest at roughly 1.5 million to 3.5 million copies, with a median around 2.5 million, derived from its 31,037 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $42.5M 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 $2.99

Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-06-01 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-06-18.

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

Where to buy

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Steam reference

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Humble Store

$29.99 Buy
GOG.com

$29.99 Buy
Fanatical -10%

$30.72 Buy

Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-05 06:22 UTC to 2026-07-24 04:23 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

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Wreckfest sold?: indielist estimates Wreckfest has sold between 1,489,776 and 3,476,144 units (median 2,482,960), derived from its 31,037 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Wreckfest?: Wreckfest was developed by Bugbear and published by THQ Nordic.
Who published Wreckfest?: Wreckfest was published by THQ Nordic, developed by Bugbear. See THQ Nordic's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Wreckfest released?: Wreckfest was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Wreckfest have on Steam?: Wreckfest has 31,037 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is Wreckfest worth playing?: Steam players rate Wreckfest 88% positive across 31,037 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 Wreckfest can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Scrap Mechanic, Feed and Grow: Fish, Teardown, Tower Unite, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Bugbear's other releases and THQ Nordic's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Wreckfest 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 Wreckfest 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.