How much revenue did Born Race make?

$570–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Born Race sell?

Q: How many copies did Born Race sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $570–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut; from 42 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Born Race out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Born Race's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 53k–164k

best case 377k (Baldi's Basics Plus)

Games like Born Race

The middle of these games

≈ 53k–164k copies

≈ $199k–$957k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Management (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Baldi's Basics Plus at ≈ 287k–466k copies, ≈ $788k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 388 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (4 of 8) and Economy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Stealth, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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Computer Tycoon 2017	Est. copies ≈ 35k–57k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $192k–$517k after Steam's cut $349k–$795k before the cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	HardwareSoftware
RetroMaze 2018	Est. copies ≈ 49k–79k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before the cut	$0.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualIndie
Two Point Campus 2022	Est. copies ≈ 202k–328k 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.9M before the cut	$29.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation
Nebuchadnezzar 2021	Est. copies ≈ 45k–74k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $250k–$672k after Steam's cut $454k–$1.0M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	City BuilderSandbox
Sand:box 2023	Est. copies ≈ 43k–69k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$97k before the cut	$1.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SandboxPixel Graphics
Play minigames with Reiko 2023	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41–$109 after Steam's cut $75–$168 before the cut	$5.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	Early AccessAnime
Baldi's Basics Plus 2020	Est. copies ≈ 287k–466k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $788k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before the cut	$9.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-like Stealth
GearCity 2022	Est. copies ≈ 37k–61k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $205k–$552k after Steam's cut $373k–$849k before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation