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How many copies did Rune in the Three Kingdoms sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
$163–$439 after Steam's cut $297–$676 before Steam's cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Only 6 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 Rune in the Three Kingdoms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rune in the Three Kingdoms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–34k
best case 169k (Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition)
Games like Rune in the Three Kingdoms

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–34k copies

≈ $36k–$201k after Steam's cut

from ~555 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: Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition at ≈ 129k–209k copies, ≈ $707k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 285 reviews in their first month; the range was 46 to 516.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Card Game (7 of 8) and Deckbuilding (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 3 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 61 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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