How much revenue did Born Into Fear make?

$12k–$31k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Born Into Fear sell?

Q: How many copies did Born Into Fear sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 282 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $12k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$48k before the cut; from 282 reviews (Very 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 Into Fear out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Born Into Fear's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–123k

best case 799k (ANIMAL WELL)

Games like Born Into Fear

The middle of these games

≈ 68k–123k copies

≈ $225k–$572k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: ANIMAL WELL at ≈ 608k–989k copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 163 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 52 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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