How much revenue did Circuit Runner make?

$204–$551 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Circuit Runner sell?

Q: How many copies did Circuit Runner sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $204–$551 after Steam's cut $371–$847 before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 91k–174k

best case 206k (Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok)

Games like Circuit Runner

The middle of these games

≈ 91k–174k copies

≈ $280k–$511k after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok at ≈ 157k–255k copies, ≈ $431k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 591 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 145 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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