How much revenue did Her Story make?

$1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Her Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Her Story sell?

509k to 827k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 509k–827k; $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut; from 10k 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 Her Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Her Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 269k–1.0M

best case 2.1M (Emily is Away)

Games like Her Story

A typical game among these

≈ 269k–1.0M copies

≈ $427k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Emily is Away at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 247 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Emily is Away 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStory Rich
The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–810k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation
PataNoir 2016	Est. copies ≈ 666–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut	$9.99	16 reviews Positive	IndieInteractive Fiction
Pentiment 2022	Est. copies ≈ 244k–397k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HistoricalStory Rich
7 Days to End with You 2022	Est. copies ≈ 86k–140k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $190k–$511k after Steam's cut $345k–$786k before Steam's cut	$7.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Visual Novel
Tell Me Everything 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $587–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut	$0.99	71 reviews Mixed	InvestigationWord Game
Chesnakisnak 2020	Est. copies ≈ 347–564 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	14 reviews Mixed	CasualAlternate History
Ring of Fire: Prologue 2020	Est. copies ≈ 694–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	28 reviews Positive	Villain ProtagonistInteractive Fiction