How much revenue did Stories Untold make?

$523k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stories Untold sell?

Q: How many copies did Stories Untold sell?

190k to 309k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 190k–309k; $523k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $950k–$2.2M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Stories Untold and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stories Untold's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 627k–1.6M

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like Stories Untold

A typical game among these

≈ 627k–1.6M copies

≈ $1.1M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8) and Multiple Endings (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 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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