How much revenue did The Running Man make?

$641–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Running Man sell?

Q: How many copies did The Running Man sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 95 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $641–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 95 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Running Man out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Running Man's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–134k

best case 359k (Sonic Lost World)

Games like The Running Man

The middle of these games

≈ 35k–134k copies

≈ $223k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sonic Lost World at ≈ 273k–444k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 361 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 126 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (5 of 8) and Parkour (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + 3D Platformer, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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N++ (NPLUSPLUS) 2016	Est. copies ≈ 149k–241k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $612k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Precision Platformer2D Platformer
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Sonic Lost World 2015	Est. copies ≈ 273k–444k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before the cut	$29.99	6k reviews Mixed	AdventurePlatformer
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Little Triangle 2017	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $56k–$151k after Steam's cut $102k–$233k before the cut	$9.99	595 reviews Very Positive	Side ScrollerExploration
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