How many copies has The Trail: Frontier Challenge sold?

indielist estimates The Trail: Frontier Challenge has sold between 16,740 and 39,060 units (median 27,900), derived from its 310 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Trail: Frontier Challenge?

The Trail: Frontier Challenge was developed by 22cans and published by Kongregate.

Who published The Trail: Frontier Challenge?

The Trail: Frontier Challenge was published by Kongregate, developed by 22cans. See Kongregate's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Trail: Frontier Challenge released?

The Trail: Frontier Challenge was released in 2017.

How many reviews does The Trail: Frontier Challenge have on Steam?

The Trail: Frontier Challenge has 310 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.

Is The Trail: Frontier Challenge worth playing?

Steam players rate The Trail: Frontier Challenge 75% positive across 310 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.

The Trail: Frontier Challenge

Aug 15, 2017 Adventure $14.99

Developer 22cans Publisher Kongregate

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game focused on frontier travel, developed by 22cans and published by Kongregate. It launched in 2017 at $14.99 and has 306 Steam reviews listed as mixed, useful context for evaluating its niche and audience response.

The Trail: Frontier Challenge is a 2017 Adventure game developed by 22cans and published by Kongregate. On Steam it has gathered 310 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer 22cans with publisher Kongregate is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 17,000 to 39,000 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, The Trail: Frontier Challenge can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

310

Positive

75%

Steam appid

584370

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

17K to 39K

units (median: 28K)

≈ $143K to $334K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

17K median 39K

+ How is this calculated?

310 reviews × NB(90) = 27,900 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$15	0
positive_75%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	90

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 The Trail: Frontier Challenge at roughly 17,000 to 39,000 copies, with a median around 28,000, derived from its 310 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $239K 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 $14.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 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

AdventureIndieSimulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Trail: Frontier Challenge sold?: indielist estimates The Trail: Frontier Challenge has sold between 16,740 and 39,060 units (median 27,900), derived from its 310 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Trail: Frontier Challenge?: The Trail: Frontier Challenge was developed by 22cans and published by Kongregate.
Who published The Trail: Frontier Challenge?: The Trail: Frontier Challenge was published by Kongregate, developed by 22cans. See Kongregate's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Trail: Frontier Challenge released?: The Trail: Frontier Challenge was released in 2017.
How many reviews does The Trail: Frontier Challenge have on Steam?: The Trail: Frontier Challenge has 310 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
Is The Trail: Frontier Challenge worth playing?: Steam players rate The Trail: Frontier Challenge 75% positive across 310 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 The Trail: Frontier Challenge can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, 22cans's other releases and Kongregate's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Trail: Frontier Challenge 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 The Trail: Frontier Challenge page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.