How much revenue did Arise: A Simple Story make?

$431k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Arise: A Simple Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Arise: A Simple Story sell?

78k to 128k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 78k–128k; $431k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $784k–$1.8M before the cut; from 3k 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 Arise: A Simple Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Arise: A Simple Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–1.0M

best case 8.7M (It Takes Two)

Games like Arise: A Simple Story

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 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: It Takes Two at ≈ 6.7M–10.8M copies, ≈ $73.2M–$196.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 830 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and Emotional (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $40.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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