How much revenue did Run For Your Life make?

$571–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Run For Your Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Run For Your Life sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $571–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 28 reviews (Mostly 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 Run For Your Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Run For Your Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 868k–3.6M

best case 10.1M (Hades)

Games like Run For Your Life

A typical game among these

≈ 868k–3.6M copies

≈ $4.5M–$22.5M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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.

Best case: Hades at ≈ 7.7M–12.5M copies, ≈ $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 of the 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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Hades II 2025	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.0M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $25.3M–$68.0M after Steam's cut $46.0M–$104.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	124k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionRogue-like
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Hades 2020	Est. copies ≈ 7.7M–12.5M 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut $96.1M–$218.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	310k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
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