How much revenue did RUNES Magica make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RUNES Magica sell?

Q: How many copies did RUNES Magica sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before the cut; from 34 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 RUNES Magica out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RUNES Magica's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–195k

best case 325k (Anomaly Agent)

Games like RUNES Magica

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–195k copies

≈ $295k–$1.0M 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.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Anomaly Agent at ≈ 248k–403k copies, ≈ $817k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 5k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Fighter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + 2D Platformer, priced around $12.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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