How much revenue did The Story of The Flood make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Story of The Flood sell?

Q: How many copies did The Story of The Flood sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 78 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 78 reviews (Mostly 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 The Story of The Flood out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Story of The Flood's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 919–14k

best case 86k (The Novelist)

Games like The Story of The Flood

The middle of these games

≈ 919–14k copies

≈ $2k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~53 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: The Novelist at ≈ 66k–107k copies, ≈ $90k–$242k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 168.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (8 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 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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