How much revenue did Born Race make?

$570–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Born Race sell?

Q: How many copies did Born Race sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $570–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 42 reviews (Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Born Race and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Born Race's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 53k–166k

best case 382k (Baldi's Basics Plus)

Games like Born Race

A typical game among these

≈ 53k–166k copies

≈ $200k–$969k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Management (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Baldi's Basics Plus at ≈ 291k–473k copies, ≈ $800k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 388 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (4 of 8) and Economy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Stealth, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Computer Tycoon 2017	Est. copies ≈ 35k–57k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $193k–$520k after Steam's cut $351k–$799k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	HardwareSoftware
RetroMaze 2018	Est. copies ≈ 49k–79k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut	$0.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualIndie
Two Point Campus 2022	Est. copies ≈ 204k–331k 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation
Nebuchadnezzar 2021	Est. copies ≈ 46k–74k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $251k–$674k after Steam's cut $456k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	City BuilderSandbox
Sand:box 2023	Est. copies ≈ 44k–71k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $24k–$64k after Steam's cut $44k–$99k before Steam's cut	$1.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SandboxPixel Graphics
Play minigames with Reiko 2023	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41–$109 after Steam's cut $75–$168 before Steam's cut	$5.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	Early AccessAnime
Baldi's Basics Plus 2020	Est. copies ≈ 291k–473k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $800k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-like Stealth
GearCity 2022	Est. copies ≈ 38k–61k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $207k–$555k after Steam's cut $376k–$854k before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation