How much revenue did BIT.TRIP RERUNNER make?

$55k–$148k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BIT.TRIP RERUNNER sell?

Q: How many copies did BIT.TRIP RERUNNER sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 404 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $55k–$148k after Steam's cut $100k–$228k before Steam's cut; from 404 reviews (Very 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 BIT.TRIP RERUNNER and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including BIT.TRIP RERUNNER's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–54k

best case 105k (Soda Crisis)

Games like BIT.TRIP RERUNNER

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–54k copies

≈ $6k–$228k after Steam's cut

from ~50 reviews

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

1 of the 3 similar games is a hit.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Soda Crisis at ≈ 80k–130k copies, ≈ $242k–$650k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Runner (3 of 3) and Side Scroller (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Runner, priced around $11.
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
Soda Crisis 2022	Est. copies ≈ 80k–130k 65x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $242k–$650k after Steam's cut $440k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$10.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Side ScrollerRunner
Cave Runner 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut	$11.99	50 reviews Mixed	Side ScrollerPrecision Platformer
Dragon Mine 2022	Est. copies ≈ 744–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $612–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$2.99	30 reviews Positive	Precision PlatformerSide Scroller