How much revenue did Garden Story make?

$235k–$633k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Garden Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Garden Story sell?

43k to 70k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–70k; $235k–$633k after Steam's cut $428k–$973k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Garden Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Garden Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–5.9M

best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Garden Story

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–5.9M copies

≈ $23.5M–$113.9M after Steam's cut

from ~61k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (6 of 8) and Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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