How much revenue did Behind Border Zone make?

$41–$110 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Behind Border Zone sell?

Q: How many copies did Behind Border Zone sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Behind Border Zone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Behind Border Zone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–89k

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like Behind Border Zone

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–89k copies

≈ $122k–$330k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 573 reviews in their first month; the range was 551 to 685.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Political Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Basketball + Sports; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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