How much revenue did Story of Animal Sprite make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Story of Animal Sprite sell?

Q: How many copies did Story of Animal Sprite sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 156 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$40k before Steam's cut; from 156 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 Story of Animal Sprite and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Story of Animal Sprite's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–73k

best case 336k (Realm Grinder)

Games like Story of Animal Sprite

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–73k copies

≈ $79k–$264k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Realm Grinder at ≈ 256k–416k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 391 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 813.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (6 of 8) and Idler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + City Builder.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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Realm Grinder 2017	Est. copies ≈ 256k–416k 5.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayClicker
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