How much revenue did Trench Run make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trench Run sell?

Q: How many copies did Trench Run sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 88 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before Steam's cut; from 88 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 Trench Run and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trench Run's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 746–16k

best case 4.4M (Teardown)

Games like Trench Run

A typical game among these

≈ 746–16k copies

≈ $2k–$64k after Steam's cut

from ~103 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: Teardown at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $27.9M–$75.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 38k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Destruction (8 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Destruction + Physics, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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