How much revenue did Borderwatch: Dark Armada make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Borderwatch: Dark Armada sell?

Q: How many copies did Borderwatch: Dark Armada sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 64 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 64 reviews (Mostly 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 Borderwatch: Dark Armada and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Borderwatch: Dark Armada's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–1.2M

best case 3.7M (Ring of Elysium)

Games like Borderwatch: Dark Armada

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–1.2M copies

≈ $660–$540k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ring of Elysium at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 171 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (6 of 8) and Battle Royale (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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