How much revenue did RPG Stories make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RPG Stories sell?

Q: How many copies did RPG Stories sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before Steam's cut; from 75 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 RPG Stories and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including RPG Stories's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–123k

best case 171k (TaleSpire)

Games like RPG Stories

A typical game among these

≈ 64k–123k copies

≈ $251k–$1.5M 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 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: TaleSpire at ≈ 130k–211k copies, ≈ $894k–$2.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 666 reviews in their first month; the range was 51 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Level Editor (4 of 7) and Building (2 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tabletop + Dungeons & Dragons, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 7 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 70 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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