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How many copies did Runner Roy sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before the cut
from 3 reviews (3 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 3 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.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 340k–746k
best case 3.2M (Super Meat Boy)
Games like Runner Roy

The middle of these games

≈ 340k–746k copies

≈ $2.5M–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Super Meat Boy at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies, ≈ $10.2M–$27.4M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 5k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + 2D Platformer, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Indie + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 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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