How much revenue did CD-RUN make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CD-RUN sell?

Q: How many copies did CD-RUN sell?

720 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 720–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut; from 25 reviews (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 CD-RUN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CD-RUN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–60k

best case 2.9M (Ultimate Chicken Horse)

Games like CD-RUN

The middle of these games

≈ 37k–60k copies

≈ $293k–$519k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Party (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Ultimate Chicken Horse at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.6M 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 138 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 445.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Party (4 of 8) and Party Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party + Platformer, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Funny + Party + Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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