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How many copies did Witch Stories sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 298–484
$409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut
from 12 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 Witch Stories out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Witch Stories's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–4k
best case 12k (Tower of Mask)
Games like Witch Stories

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–4k copies

≈ $1k–$6k after Steam's cut

from ~62 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Tower of Mask at ≈ 9k–15k copies, ≈ $28k–$74k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 121.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival Horror + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $11.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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Est. copies
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6.0x vs typical
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$10.99
369 reviews
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