They Are Billions

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They Are Billions

Short description

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Developer
Numantian Games
Publisher
Numantian Games
Release
Tue, Jun 18, 2019
Price
$29.99
Reviews
46,324
Positive
85%
Followers
280,793
Owners (estimated)
2M – 5M
Concurrent players
2,655
Genres
Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor, Remote Play on Tablet
Tags
Base-Building Colony Sim Strategy Zombies Survival RTS Tower Defense City Builder Steampunk Building Post-apocalyptic Singleplayer Resource Management Real-Time with Pause Difficult Tactical Management Indie Isometric Multiplayer
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$58.2msomewhere between $55.8m and $103m · roughly 2M–3.7M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $27.91, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $29.99 launch price. That is 7% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

87 data points since Aug 16, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$57.9m → ~$58.2m
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Reviews 46,079 → 46,324
Followers 279,942 → 280,793
Concurrent players 2,751 → 2,655
Price $29.99 → $29.99
Positive reviews 85.1% → 85.1%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 303 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2017 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $18.74 on May 5, 2018.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around They Are Billions is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

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$24.1m – $33m
Space Haven Space Haven Bugbyte Ltd. 2 titles 4 − Zombies − RTS + Space + Simulation $24.99 10,384 86% Wed, May 13, 2026 $9.8m
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Planetbase Planetbase Madruga Works 4 titles 4 − Zombies − RTS + City Builder + Space $14.99 9,590 80% Thu, Oct 15, 2015 $6.1m
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