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How many copies did Epistory - Typing Chronicles sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 284k–462k
$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut
from 7k 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 Epistory - Typing Chronicles and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Epistory - Typing Chronicles's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 299k–1.1M
best case 1.3M (Journey)
Games like Epistory - Typing Chronicles

A typical game among these

≈ 299k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.9M–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Journey at ≈ 958k–1.6M copies, ≈ $3.9M–$10.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 348 to 5k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Beautiful + Exploration, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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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