How much revenue did Rune Factory 5 make?

$576k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rune Factory 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did Rune Factory 5 sell?

52k to 85k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–85k; $576k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.4M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Rune Factory 5 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rune Factory 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 56k–86k

best case 1.1M (Fields of Mistria)

Games like Rune Factory 5

The middle of these games

≈ 56k–86k copies

≈ $604k–$854k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Fields of Mistria at ≈ 834k–1.4M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.6M 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 971 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 293 to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Farming Sim (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Simulation, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Dating Sim + Cute + Romance; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2020 to 2026, and 1 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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