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How many copies did RANK RUNNER sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 461–749
$125–$337 after Steam's cut $228–$519 before the cut
from 16 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left RANK RUNNER out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RANK RUNNER's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–17k
best case 19k (Madrun)
Games like RANK RUNNER

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–17k copies

≈ $12k–$56k after Steam's cut

from ~301 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Runner (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: Madrun at ≈ 14k–23k copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 58 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 24 to 258.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Runner (4 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Racing + 2D Platformer.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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