How much revenue did A Story About My Uncle make?

$6.8M–$18.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Story About My Uncle sell?

Q: How many copies did A Story About My Uncle sell?

1.6M to 2.7M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.7M; $6.8M–$18.2M after Steam's cut $12.3M–$27.9M before Steam's cut; from 29k 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 A Story About My Uncle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Story About My Uncle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–8.3M

best case 31.8M (Dying Light)

Games like A Story About My Uncle

A typical game among these

≈ 2.5M–8.3M copies

≈ $20.9M–$91.9M after Steam's cut

from ~66k 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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (6 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2022, and none of them 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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Mirror's Edge™ 2009	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut $24.9M–$56.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	39k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureParkour
Outlast 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	65k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 309k–501k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	6k reviews Mostly Negative	MultiplayerFPS
BONEWORKS 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's cut $15.8M–$35.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	36k reviews Very Positive	VRPhysics
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5.5M–8.9M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $90.1M–$242.1M after Steam's cut $163.7M–$372.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	220k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldCo-op
Dishonored 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.0M–$61.8M after Steam's cut $41.8M–$95.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	67k reviews Very Positive	StealthFirst-Person
Dying Light 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24.2M–39.3M 7.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut $302.5M–$688.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	496k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person