How big is the Story-rich market on Steam?

A typical Story-rich game sells 469k to 762k copies, and the top decile 2.5M to 4.1M, based on the 687 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What Story-rich games usually sell on Steam

What Story-rich games sell on Steam, shown two ways: a SteamSpy sample of the whole genre, and the Story-rich games people have looked up here.

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 469k–762k copies

$2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies

$13.8M–$37.0M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 687 Story-rich games sit with 56 of them.

Based on the 687 Story-rich games SteamSpy listed on November 15, 2026. It misses the games that barely sold, so these figures flatter the genre. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Copies are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Story-rich games gathered on wishvane

Across the 1654 Story-rich games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 29k–68k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, Black Myth: Wukong, at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than SteamSpy's figures above.

The Story-rich games gathered here span 2002 to 2026, and 346 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest Story-rich games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Cyberpunk and Point & Click.
Across the Story-rich games gathered here a typical price is $14.99, and the biggest charge more, around $20.

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