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Racing indie game BeamNG.drive launched in 2015 from developer and publisher BeamNG. On Steam, it has 368,632 reviews with 97% positive, listed as overwhelmingly positive, and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
BeamNG.drive is a 2015 Racing game developed by BeamNG and published by BeamNG. On Steam it has gathered 368,934 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Racing category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer BeamNG with publisher BeamNG is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Racing projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 21.0 million to 49.1 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, BeamNG.drive can be compared against similar Racing titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
368,934
Positive
97%
Steam appid
284160
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.021.0M to 49.1M
units (median: 35.0M)
≈ $300.2M to $700.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for BeamNG.drive at roughly 21.0 million to 49.1 million copies, with a median around 35.0 million, derived from its 368,934 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $500.3M 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
90d · low $15.61Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $15.61 to $24.99, averaging $23.54 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $15.61 on 2026-04-21.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
RacingSimulationEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has BeamNG.drive sold?
- indielist estimates BeamNG.drive has sold between 21,029,238 and 49,068,222 units (median 35,048,730), derived from its 368,934 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed BeamNG.drive?
- BeamNG.drive was developed by BeamNG and published by BeamNG.
- When was BeamNG.drive released?
- BeamNG.drive was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does BeamNG.drive have on Steam?
- BeamNG.drive has 368,934 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions BeamNG.drive within the Racing segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, BeamNG's other releases and BeamNG's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BeamNG.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 BeamNG.drive page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Racing 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.