How much revenue did Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure make?

$59k–$158k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 539 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $59k–$158k after Steam's cut $107k–$243k before Steam's cut; from 539 reviews (Very 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 Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 346k–750k

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 346k–750k copies

≈ $2.1M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 946 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Detective (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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