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
Cow Country (novel) Initially, the volume was reviewed only on a limited scale. The "San Francisco Book Review" wrote, "With quirky characters and impossible situations, "Cow Country" handles drought, institutional lunacy, racism, and romance with deft insight, as well as keen-edged satirical commentary." The "Midwest Book Review" described it as a "tour de farce." "Kirkus" called the book "Ambitious in its creation of this kooky world, the book will certainly strike a chord with readers lost in their own wacky arenas of academic bickering." In March 2017, it was announced that Cow Country had been included in the long list for the Yasnaya