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Estimated revenue, market economics, and the top games tagged Interactive Fiction on Steam.
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Total estimated revenue of Interactive Fiction games, grouped by the year they launched — a release-cohort trend, not a live time-series. Recent years are still accumulating revenue after launch.
Leaderboard
| # | Game | Est. revenue | Reviews | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series | $29M | 45.9K | 97% | $49.99 |
| 2 | To the Moon | $19.5M | 86K | 96% | $9.99 |
| 3 | Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut | $16.2M | 32.9K | 97% | $17.99 |
| Year | Releases | Median rev | $100k+ | $1M+ | Total genre revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 | $837.9K | 87% | 40% | $22.4M |
| 2025 | 52 | $484.7K | 83% | 23% | $43.2M |
| 2024 | 35 | $400.2K | 66% | 34% | $42.3M |
| 2023 | 39 | $602K | 77% | 28% | $50.8M |
| 2022 | 40 | $556.6K | 68% | 38% | $51.7M |
| 2021 | 43 | $318K | 70% | 26% | $45M |
| 2020 | 27 | $264.1K | 59% | 19% | $52.5M |
| 2019 | 13 | $665.2K | 85% | 38% | $19.8M |
| 2018 | 10 | $269.1K | 90% | 0% | $3.3M |
| 2017 | 13 | $364.6K | 77% | 31% | $13.7M |
| 2016 | 9 | $256.2K | 56% | 22% | $8.1M |
| 2015 | 9 | $434.2K | 67% | 33% | $10.2M |
Median beats average here: genre revenue is hit-driven, so the median shows what the typical Interactive Fiction launch actually earned. Recent years accumulate revenue for a while after launch.
| 4 |
| The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty |
| $11.1M |
| 59.6K |
| 94% |
| $9.99 |
| 5 | Not For Broadcast | $9.2M | 12.5K | 94% | $24.99 |
| 6 | There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension | $8.8M | 25.7K | 98% | $12.99 |
| 7 | Road 96 🛣️ | $8.4M | 25.6K | 92% | $19.96 |
| 8 | Hobo: Tough Life | $7.4M | 9.9K | 84% | $29.99 |
| 9 | A Plague Tale: Requiem | $7.1M | 25.8K | 91% | $14.99 |
| 10 | Unheard - Voices of Crime | $6.4M | 33.7K | 96% | $6.99 |
| 11 | Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs | $6.4M | 12.1K | 70% | $19.99 |
| 12 | The Invincible | $6.1M | 12K | 88% | $29.99 |
| 13 | Until Then | $5.5M | 18.2K | 97% | $19.99 |
| 14 | Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You | $5.5M | 15.5K | 90% | $9.99 |
| 15 | Gone Home | $5.5M | 18.4K | 77% | $14.99 |
| 16 | The Henry Stickmin Collection | $5.3M | 58.6K | 99% | $5.99 |
| 17 | Esoteric Ebb | $5.1M | 8.5K | 95% | $24.99 |
| 18 | Until Dawn™ | $5.1M | 5.1K | 83% | $59.99 |
| 19 | SCARLET NEXUS | $4.6M | 18.1K | 80% | $14.39 |
| 20 | School Days | $4.5M | 7.7K | 76% | $14.99 |
| 21 | Lost Records: Bloom & Rage | $4.5M | 6.2K | 86% | $39.99 |
| 22 | Killer Frequency | $4.4M | 6K | 93% | $24.99 |
| 23 | Coffee Talk | $4.3M | 12.5K | 95% | $12.99 |
| 24 | Finding Paradise | $4.3M | 20.2K | 98% | $9.99 |
| 25 | Yog-Sothoth’s Yard | $4.1M | 13.6K | 94% | $10.99 |
| 26 | Little Misfortune | $4.1M | 14K | 92% | $19.99 |
| 27 | Citizen Sleeper | $4M | 10.3K | 92% | $19.99 |
| 28 | Pyre | $3.9M | 9.3K | 90% | $19.99 |
| 29 | Shelter 2 | $3.8M | 4.3K | 85% | $24.99 |
| 30 | Her Story | $3.7M | 10.4K | 89% | $9.99 |
| 31 | Tavern Keeper 🍻 | $3.7M | 4.6K | 94% | $23.99 |
| 32 | Mirror 2: Project X | $3.5M | 115.7K | 24% | $1.99 |
| 33 | I Was a Teenage Exocolonist | $3.2M | 4.7K | 96% | $24.99 |
| 34 | The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall | $3.2M | 9K | 59% | $11.99 |
| 35 | Mandate Of Heaven | $3.2M | 6.4K | 91% | $14.99 |
| 36 | Hypnospace Outlaw | $3.2M | 5.5K | 97% | $19.99 |
| 37 | The Roottrees are Dead | $3.1M | 9.4K | 97% | $19.99 |
| 38 | Before Your Eyes | $3.1M | 23.4K | 98% | $9.99 |
| 39 | OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition | $3.1M | 9.4K | 96% | $24.99 |
| 40 | Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown | $3M | 4.4K | 80% | $24.49 |
| 41 | Easy Delivery Co. | $3M | 9.9K | 95% | $9.09 |
| 42 | Nobody Wants to Die | $2.9M | 7.1K | 83% | $24.99 |
| 43 | The Casting of Frank Stone™ | $2.9M | 5.9K | 62% | $29.99 |
| 44 | KARMA: The Dark World | $2.7M | 4.5K | 91% | $24.99 |
| 45 | The Case of the Golden Idol | $2.7M | 10.8K | 98% | $17.99 |
| 46 | Eastshade | $2.6M | 5.5K | 89% | $24.99 |
| 47 | Pentiment | $2.6M | 9.6K | 95% | $19.99 |
| 48 | The Operator | $2.3M | 8.5K | 92% | $8.39 |
| 49 | The Three Kingdoms: Rebirth | $2.3M | 3K | 91% | $19.99 |
| 50 | Impostor Factory | $2.2M | 12.8K | 96% | $9.99 |