How much revenue did Faded Stories: Full Moon make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Faded Stories: Full Moon sell?

Q: How many copies did Faded Stories: Full Moon sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 41 reviews (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 Faded Stories: Full Moon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Faded Stories: Full Moon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 932k–4.9M

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Faded Stories: Full Moon

The middle of these games

≈ 932k–4.9M copies

≈ $7.1M–$25.0M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Dark (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 1 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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