How much revenue did Runemancer make?

$54–$146 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Runemancer sell?

Q: How many copies did Runemancer sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $54–$146 after Steam's cut $99–$224 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 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 Runemancer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Runemancer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293–2k

best case 18k (Crop Rotation)

Games like Runemancer

The middle of these games

≈ 293–2k copies

≈ $413–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~19 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crop Rotation at ≈ 14k–23k copies, ≈ $38k–$103k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 134 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 Auto Battler (5 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Deckbuilding, priced around $10.
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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