How many copies did Chess Evolved Online sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 806 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Chess Evolved Online make?

Chess Evolved Online is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Chess Evolved Online?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 20k–32k; from 806 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Chess Evolved Online and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess Evolved Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 134k–241k

best case 1.2M (Loop Hero)

Games like Chess Evolved Online

A typical game among these

≈ 134k–241k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Loop Hero at ≈ 907k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (5 of 8) and Card Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Deckbuilding, priced around $37. The breakout hits carry Superhero + Deckbuilding + Tactical RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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