How much revenue did Rune Factory 5 make?

$581k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rune Factory 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did Rune Factory 5 sell?

53k to 86k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 53k–86k; $581k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Rune Factory 5 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rune Factory 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 56k–86k

best case 1.2M (Fields of Mistria)

Games like Rune Factory 5

A typical game among these

≈ 56k–86k copies

≈ $606k–$861k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Fields of Mistria at ≈ 886k–1.4M copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 970 reviews in their first month; the range was 293 to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Farming Sim (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Simulation, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Dating Sim + Cute + Romance; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2020 to 2026, and 1 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 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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