How much revenue did Story of Animal Sprite make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Story of Animal Sprite sell?

Q: How many copies did Story of Animal Sprite sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 153 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut; from 153 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 Story of Animal Sprite out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Story of Animal Sprite's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–73k

best case 336k (Realm Grinder)

Games like Story of Animal Sprite

The middle of these games

≈ 33k–73k copies

≈ $79k–$264k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Realm Grinder at ≈ 256k–416k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 391 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 815.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (6 of 8) and Idler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + City Builder.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 2 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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