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How many copies did On the Run: Rogue Heroes sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$367–$989 after Steam's cut $668–$2k before Steam's cut
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Only 9 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 On the Run: Rogue Heroes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including On the Run: Rogue Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–314k
best case 428k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)
Games like On the Run: Rogue Heroes

A typical game among these

≈ 63k–314k copies

≈ $995k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 326k–529k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 855 reviews in their first month; the range was 264 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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