How many copies has Garden Story sold?

indielist estimates Garden Story has sold between 70,839 and 165,291 units (median 118,065), derived from its 1,389 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Garden Story?

Garden Story was developed by Picogram and published by Rose City Games.

Who published Garden Story?

Garden Story was published by Rose City Games, developed by Picogram. See Rose City Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Garden Story released?

Garden Story was released in 2021.

How many reviews does Garden Story have on Steam?

Garden Story has 1,389 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.

Is Garden Story worth playing?

Steam players rate Garden Story 89% positive across 1,389 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Garden Story

Aug 11, 2021 Adventure $19.99

Developer Picogram Publisher Rose City Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game Garden Story comes from developer Picogram and was published by Rose City Games. Released in 2021, it launched at $19.99 and has 1,378 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive in the provided data.

Garden Story is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Picogram and published by Rose City Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,389 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Picogram with publisher Rose City Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 71,000 to 165,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Garden Story can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,389

Positive

89%

Steam appid

1062140

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

71K to 165K

units (median: 118K)

≈ $809K to $1.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

71K median 165K

+ How is this calculated?

1,389 reviews × NB(85) = 118,065 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$20	0
positive_89%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Garden Story at roughly 71,000 to 165,000 copies, with a median around 118,000, derived from its 1,389 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

8 observed days · window low $19.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Garden Story sold?: indielist estimates Garden Story has sold between 70,839 and 165,291 units (median 118,065), derived from its 1,389 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Garden Story?: Garden Story was developed by Picogram and published by Rose City Games.
Who published Garden Story?: Garden Story was published by Rose City Games, developed by Picogram. See Rose City Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Garden Story released?: Garden Story was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Garden Story have on Steam?: Garden Story has 1,389 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Is Garden Story worth playing?: Steam players rate Garden Story 89% positive across 1,389 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Garden Story can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Picogram's other releases and Rose City Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Garden Story sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Garden Story page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.