How much revenue did Run Pizza Run make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Run Pizza Run sell?

Q: How many copies did Run Pizza Run sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 101 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 101 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 Run Pizza Run and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Run Pizza Run's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 270k–617k

best case 1.5M (Love Is All Around)

Games like Run Pizza Run

A typical game among these

≈ 270k–617k copies

≈ $2.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dating Sim (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Love Is All Around at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 256 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dating Sim (3 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Sexual Content, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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Knowledge, or know Lady 2024	Est. copies ≈ 223k–362k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $429k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $779k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$6.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Sexual ContentDating Sim
Her Story 2015	Est. copies ≈ 509k–827k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	10k reviews Very Positive	InvestigationTyping
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Summer Pockets 2020	Est. copies ≈ 123k–200k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$44.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureVisual Novel
Outcore: Desktop Adventure 2022	Est. copies ≈ 457k–743k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventurePsychological Horror
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