How many copies did Borefest sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Borefest make?

Borefest is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Borefest?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 322–524; from 13 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 679k–1.2M

best case 850k (There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension)

Games like Borefest

A typical game among these

≈ 679k–1.2M copies

≈ $458k–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Comedy (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: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension at ≈ 648k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut. 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Puzzle, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry Puzzle + Comedy + Villain Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2022, 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 79 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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