How much revenue did BORE BLASTERS make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BORE BLASTERS sell?

Q: How many copies did BORE BLASTERS sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 765 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$216k before Steam's cut; from 765 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 BORE BLASTERS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BORE BLASTERS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–3.9M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like BORE BLASTERS

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–3.9M copies

≈ $21k–$48.6M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (5 of 8) and Dwarf (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Co-op, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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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