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How many copies did Circuit Runner sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$204–$551 after Steam's cut $371–$847 before Steam's cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Circuit Runner and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Circuit Runner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–175k
best case 206k (Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok)
Games like Circuit Runner

A typical game among these

≈ 92k–175k copies

≈ $283k–$511k after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok at ≈ 157k–256k copies, ≈ $432k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 591 reviews in their first month; the range was 145 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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