How much revenue did Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages make?

$71k–$192k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages sell?

Q: How many copies did Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages sell?

52k to 85k copies, based on its 823 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–85k; $71k–$192k after Steam's cut $130k–$295k before Steam's cut; from 823 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 Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–2.8M

best case 10.7M (Stellaris)

Games like Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–2.8M copies

≈ $30.0M–$46.8M after Steam's cut

from ~61k 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.6M 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 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Space (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Sci-fi, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Space + Grand Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut $204.7M–$465.6M before Steam's cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy