How many copies has Arise: A Simple Story sold?

indielist estimates Arise: A Simple Story has sold between 135,456 and 316,064 units (median 225,760), derived from its 2,656 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Arise: A Simple Story?

Arise: A Simple Story was developed by Piccolo Studio and published by Untold Tales.

Who published Arise: A Simple Story?

Arise: A Simple Story was published by Untold Tales, developed by Piccolo Studio. See Untold Tales's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Arise: A Simple Story released?

Arise: A Simple Story was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Arise: A Simple Story have on Steam?

Arise: A Simple Story has 2,656 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Arise: A Simple Story worth playing?

Steam players rate Arise: A Simple Story 92% positive across 2,656 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.

Arise: A Simple Story

Dec 3, 2020 Adventure $19.99

Developer Piccolo Studio Publisher Untold Tales

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game focused on a story-driven journey, developed by Piccolo Studio and published by Untold Tales. It launched in 2020 at $19.99 and has 2,611 Steam reviews with a mixed rating signal.

Arise: A Simple Story is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Piccolo Studio and published by Untold Tales. On Steam it has gathered 2,656 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Piccolo Studio with publisher Untold Tales 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 135,000 to 316,000 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, Arise: A Simple Story can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,656

Positive

92%

Steam appid

866140

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

135K to 316K

units (median: 226K)

≈ $1.5M to $3.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

135K median 316K

+ How is this calculated?

2,656 reviews × NB(85) = 225,760 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_92%	+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 Arise: A Simple Story at roughly 135,000 to 316,000 copies, with a median around 226,000, derived from its 2,656 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.6M 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 $3.28

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.28 to $3.28. The tracked-window low was $3.28 on 2026-07-15.

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

Where to buy

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Humble Store -84%

$3.28 Buy
Fanatical -83%

$3.83 Buy
GOG.com -80%

$3.99 Buy
Steam reference

$19.99 Buy
Green Man Gaming

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Arise: A Simple Story sold?: indielist estimates Arise: A Simple Story has sold between 135,456 and 316,064 units (median 225,760), derived from its 2,656 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Arise: A Simple Story?: Arise: A Simple Story was developed by Piccolo Studio and published by Untold Tales.
Who published Arise: A Simple Story?: Arise: A Simple Story was published by Untold Tales, developed by Piccolo Studio. See Untold Tales's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Arise: A Simple Story released?: Arise: A Simple Story was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Arise: A Simple Story have on Steam?: Arise: A Simple Story has 2,656 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Arise: A Simple Story worth playing?: Steam players rate Arise: A Simple Story 92% positive across 2,656 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 Arise: A Simple 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, Piccolo Studio's other releases and Untold Tales's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Arise: A Simple 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 Arise: A Simple 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.