Showrunner
Short description
Create and run your own TV show! An isometric management game where you craft scripts, populate your world with characters and cast actors to play them. Hire and manage staff, develop your studio and gain a dedicated following.
- Developer
- Inexplicable Games
- Publisher
- Inexplicable Games
- Release
- Tue, Jan 17, 2023
- Price
- $8.99
- Reviews
- 108
- Positive
- 71%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $8.73, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $8.99 launch price. That is 3% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 13, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
77 data points going back to Jan 1, 2023 lie outside the 90-day window of your plan. Plus shows the complete history.
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Bomber Crew | Runner Duck 2 titles | 4 | − Isometric − Resource Management + World War II + Flight | $15.99 | 10,453 | 89% | Thu, Oct 19, 2017 | $8m $8m – $13.4m |
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