How much revenue did Runner3 make?

$50k–$135k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Runner3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Runner3 sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 300 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $50k–$135k after Steam's cut $91k–$207k before the cut; from 300 reviews (Mostly 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 Runner3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Runner3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 166k–259k

best case 262k (Melody's Escape)

Games like Runner3

The middle of these games

≈ 166k–259k copies

≈ $654k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Melody's Escape at ≈ 200k–325k copies, ≈ $549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 40 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Music (7 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music-Based Procedural Generation + Rhythm, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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