Runaway: A Road Adventure badly at all" in the United States, where its lifetime sales at brick-and-mortar retailers totaled 12,928 units by the end of that month. Chris Kellner of German publisher DTP Entertainment declared "Runaway" "a huge success" in Germany. By late 2003, it had surpassed the sales of any other adventure localized by DTP; as of March 2003, it had spent six months on Germany's computer game sales charts. According to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce's "Hamburger Wirtschaft" magazine, "Runaway" it ultimately sold 60,000 units in Germany and helped to revive the country's adventure game industry. It remained DTP's best-selling adventure release
Yvonne Cormeau the Germans accepted her story and ID that she was a district nurse, and she succeeded in passing her wireless equipment off as an X-ray machine. She worked for 13 months and evaded arrest despite some narrow escapes. Whilst operating in France Yvonne was shot in the leg by a German patrol, but managed to escape. The dress she wore on this occasion and the bloodstained briefcase she carried are on permanent display in the Imperial War Museum in London along with her WAAF officer's uniform. A year after the end of the war, she was demobilised with the WAAF