How many copies did How Stories Die sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 121 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did How Stories Die make?

How Stories Die is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is How Stories Die?

Estimated owners: ≈ 3k–5k; from 121 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 How Stories Die out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including How Stories Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 363k–541k

best case 778k (Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet)

Games like How Stories Die

The middle of these games

≈ 363k–541k copies

≈ $1.4M–$8.6M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet at ≈ 593k–963k copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (7 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + JRPG, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Action + JRPG + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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).

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Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- 2016	Est. copies ≈ 343k–557k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $942k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before the cut	$9.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelAnime
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