How much revenue did Henchman Story make?

$32k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Henchman Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Henchman Story sell?

8k to 12k copies, based on its 310 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–12k; $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $58k–$131k before Steam's cut; from 310 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 Henchman Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Henchman Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–79k

best case 129k (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical)

Games like Henchman Story

A typical game among these

≈ 29k–79k copies

≈ $223k–$428k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical at ≈ 98k–159k copies, ≈ $808k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 288 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Story Rich, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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