How much revenue did Rune Factory 3 Special make?

$233k–$625k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rune Factory 3 Special sell?

Q: How many copies did Rune Factory 3 Special sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 853 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; $233k–$625k after Steam's cut $423k–$962k before the cut; from 853 reviews (Very 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 3 Special out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rune Factory 3 Special's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 140k–196k

best case 1.2M (Against the Storm)

Games like Rune Factory 3 Special

The middle of these games

≈ 140k–196k copies

≈ $1.3M–$1.8M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Against the Storm at ≈ 926k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.6M–$20.5M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Farming Sim (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Dating Sim, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2020 to 2026, 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 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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