How many copies has Best Friend Forever sold?

indielist estimates Best Friend Forever has sold between 7,956 and 18,564 units (median 13,260), derived from its 204 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Best Friend Forever?

Best Friend Forever was developed by Starcolt and published by Alliance.

Who published Best Friend Forever?

Best Friend Forever was published by Alliance, developed by Starcolt. See Alliance's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Best Friend Forever released?

Best Friend Forever was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Best Friend Forever have on Steam?

Best Friend Forever has 204 Steam reviews, of which 70% are positive.

Is Best Friend Forever worth playing?

Steam players rate Best Friend Forever 70% positive across 204 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Best Friend Forever

Aug 27, 2020 Indie $19.99

Developer Starcolt Publisher Alliance

Profile updated Jul 2026

Indie game entry from developer starcolt, published by alliance, with a 2020 release and an initial price of $19.99. Steam shows 203 reviews at 71% positive, indicating a mixed-to-positive reception from a modest review base.

Best Friend Forever is a 2020 Indie game developed by Starcolt and published by Alliance. On Steam it has gathered 204 player reviews, 70% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Starcolt with publisher Alliance is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 8,000 to 19,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Best Friend Forever can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

204

Positive

70%

Steam appid

1034850

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

8K to 19K

units (median: 13K)

≈ $91K to $212K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

8K median 19K

+ How is this calculated?

204 reviews × NB(65) = 13,260 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_70%	0
final NB	65

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Best Friend Forever at roughly 8,000 to 19,000 copies, with a median around 13,000, derived from its 204 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $151K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

15 observed days · window low $19.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Best Friend Forever sold?: indielist estimates Best Friend Forever has sold between 7,956 and 18,564 units (median 13,260), derived from its 204 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Best Friend Forever?: Best Friend Forever was developed by Starcolt and published by Alliance.
Who published Best Friend Forever?: Best Friend Forever was published by Alliance, developed by Starcolt. See Alliance's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Best Friend Forever released?: Best Friend Forever was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Best Friend Forever have on Steam?: Best Friend Forever has 204 Steam reviews, of which 70% are positive.
Is Best Friend Forever worth playing?: Steam players rate Best Friend Forever 70% positive across 204 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Best Friend Forever can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Starcolt's other releases and Alliance's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Best Friend Forever sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Best Friend Forever page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.