How much revenue did RUNES Magica make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RUNES Magica sell?

Q: How many copies did RUNES Magica sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 34 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–196k

best case 326k (Anomaly Agent)

Games like RUNES Magica

A typical game among these

≈ 41k–196k copies

≈ $298k–$1.0M 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.

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Anomaly Agent at ≈ 249k–404k copies, ≈ $820k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 5k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Fighter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + 2D Platformer, priced around $12.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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