How much revenue did Her Story make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Her Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Her Story sell?

507k to 824k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 507k–824k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before the cut; from 10k 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 Her Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Her Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 266k–1.0M

best case 2.1M (Emily is Away)

Games like Her Story

The middle of these games

≈ 266k–1.0M copies

≈ $425k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Emily is Away at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 248 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Emily is Away 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStory Rich
The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–811k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $497k–$1.1M before the cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation
PataNoir 2016	Est. copies ≈ 666–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before the cut	$9.99	16 reviews Positive	IndieInteractive Fiction
Pentiment 2022	Est. copies ≈ 242k–393k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut	$19.99	10k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HistoricalStory Rich
7 Days to End with You 2022	Est. copies ≈ 85k–139k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $187k–$504k after Steam's cut $341k–$775k before the cut	$7.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Visual Novel
Tell Me Everything 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $596–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut	$0.99	72 reviews Mixed	InvestigationWord Game
Chesnakisnak 2020	Est. copies ≈ 347–564 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	14 reviews Mixed	CasualAlternate History
Ring of Fire: Prologue 2020	Est. copies ≈ 694–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	28 reviews Positive	Villain ProtagonistInteractive Fiction