How much revenue did Runner3 make?

$50k–$135k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Runner3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Runner3 sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 301 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $50k–$135k after Steam's cut $91k–$208k before Steam's cut; from 301 reviews (Mostly 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 Runner3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Runner3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 166k–259k

best case 262k (Melody's Escape)

Games like Runner3

A typical game among these

≈ 166k–259k copies

≈ $653k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Melody's Escape at ≈ 200k–325k copies, ≈ $549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 40 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (7 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music-Based Procedural Generation + Rhythm, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2026, and 2 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 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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Melody's Escape 2016	Est. copies ≈ 200k–325k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $998k–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Music-Based Procedural GenerationRhythm
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