How much revenue did Border Pioneer make?

$194k–$522k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Border Pioneer sell?

Q: How many copies did Border Pioneer sell?

47k to 77k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 47k–77k; $194k–$522k after Steam's cut $353k–$803k before the cut; from 2k 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 Border Pioneer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Border Pioneer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.6M

best case 7.6M (Factorio)

Games like Border Pioneer

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies

≈ $4.9M–$10.5M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Factorio at ≈ 5.8M–9.4M copies, ≈ $55.8M–$150.2M 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 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (5 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Automation + Multiplayer + Resource Management; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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