How much revenue did The Stanley Parable make?

$11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Stanley Parable sell?

Q: How many copies did The Stanley Parable sell?

2.9M to 4.7M copies, based on its 46k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.9M–4.7M; $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut $21.7M–$49.4M before Steam's cut; from 46k 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 The Stanley Parable and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Stanley Parable's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 348k–605k

best case 5.4M (BattleBlock Theater®)

Games like The Stanley Parable

A typical game among these

≈ 348k–605k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Comedy (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: BattleBlock Theater® at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $16.8M–$45.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 541 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (4 of 8) and Point & Click (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Funny + Comedy + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 79 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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