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How many copies did On the Run: Rogue Heroes sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$367–$989 after Steam's cut $668–$2k 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 On the Run: Rogue Heroes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including On the Run: Rogue Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–313k
best case 413k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)
Games like On the Run: Rogue Heroes

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–313k copies

≈ $986k–$3.0M 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.

Best case: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 315k–512k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 856 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 264 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 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 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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