How much revenue did Rune It Out make?

$245–$659 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rune It Out sell?

Q: How many copies did Rune It Out sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $245–$659 after Steam's cut $445–$1k before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 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 Rune It Out out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rune It Out's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–5.5M

best case 7.3M (The Elder Scrolls® Online)

Games like Rune It Out

The middle of these games

≈ 3.3M–5.5M copies

≈ $26.8M–$56.8M after Steam's cut

from ~105k 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: The Elder Scrolls® Online at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $30.5M–$82.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 66k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (6 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG + Open World, priced around $20.
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 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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