How many copies did Old School RuneScape sell?

517k to 840k copies, based on its 21k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Old School RuneScape make?

Old School RuneScape is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Old School RuneScape?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 517k–840k; from 21k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Old School RuneScape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Old School RuneScape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 274k–675k

best case 9.7M (New World: Aeternum)

Games like Old School RuneScape

A typical game among these

≈ 274k–675k copies

from ~10k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: New World: Aeternum at ≈ 7.4M–12.0M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MMORPG (8 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2022, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
New World: Aeternum 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.4M–12.0M 31x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	297k reviews Mixed	Open WorldMassively Multiplayer
NosTale - Anime MMORPG 2017	Est. copies ≈ 125k–203k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayMMORPG
Trove 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 9.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	93k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World
RIFT 2011	Est. copies ≈ 736k–1.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMMORPG
Wizard101 2018	Est. copies ≈ 293k–476k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	10k reviews Very Positive	ColorfulMMORPG
Lost Ark 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.2M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	203k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGFree to Play
The Elder Scrolls® Online 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.0M 17x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $30.6M–$82.2M after Steam's cut $55.6M–$126.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	162k reviews Very Positive	RPGMMORPG
Black Desert 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.3M 9.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	94k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGMassively Multiplayer