How many copies did Stories One sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Stories One make?

Stories One is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Stories One?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 2k–3k; from 73 reviews (Mixed)

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 Stories One and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stories One's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 337k–506k

best case 13.8M (Paladins®)

Games like Stories One

A typical game among these

≈ 337k–506k copies

from ~10k 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.

Best case: Paladins® at ≈ 10.5M–17.1M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (5 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter. The breakout hits carry FPS + Shooter + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 61 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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