How much revenue did Cyber Runner make?

$108–$291 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cyber Runner sell?

Q: How many copies did Cyber Runner sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $108–$291 after Steam's cut $197–$447 before Steam's cut; from 16 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 Cyber Runner and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cyber Runner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 605–4k

best case 8.6M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Cyber Runner

A typical game among these

≈ 605–4k copies

≈ $362–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~29 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arcade (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $72.1M–$193.9M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (4 of 8) and Racing (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Detroit: Become Human 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 9117x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $72.1M–$193.9M after Steam's cut $131.1M–$298.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	264k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich
Ding Dong XL 2018	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k 31x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut	$0.99	906 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RunnerDifficult
Teardown 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.5M 4703x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $27.9M–$75.0M after Steam's cut $50.7M–$115.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	136k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DestructionPhysics
Vaporwave World 2022	Est. copies ≈ 719–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $196–$527 after Steam's cut $356–$810 before Steam's cut	$0.99	29 reviews Positive	CasualIndie
Hyperun 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut	$5.99	85 reviews Very Positive	RacingSports
Tri6: Infinite 2020	Est. copies ≈ 248–403 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before Steam's cut	$7.99	10 reviews Positive	IndieAction
RANK RUNNER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 461–749 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $125–$337 after Steam's cut $228–$519 before Steam's cut	$0.99	16 reviews Mostly Positive	Bullet HellRunner
Cyber Driver 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5k–7k 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$0.99	158 reviews Very Positive	Automobile SimCasual