How much revenue did Knight Swap make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Knight Swap sell?

Q: How many copies did Knight Swap sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 149 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 149 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 Knight Swap and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knight Swap's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 879–3k

best case 5k (Chess Brain)

Games like Knight Swap

A typical game among these

≈ 879–3k copies

≈ $883–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~40 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Chess Brain at ≈ 4k–7k copies, ≈ $1k–$3k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 24.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sokoban + Chess, priced around $1.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Chess Brain 2020	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$0.99	164 reviews Very Positive	SokobanChess
Unlock The King 3 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $513–$1k after Steam's cut $933–$2k before Steam's cut	$0.99	76 reviews Mostly Positive	SokobanDifficult
Unlock The King 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $851–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$0.99	126 reviews Mostly Positive	SokobanFuturistic
SokoChess 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$4.99	45 reviews Positive	ChessSokoban
Chesskoban Bishop 2021	Est. copies ≈ 868–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $237–$636 after Steam's cut $430–$978 before Steam's cut	$0.99	35 reviews Positive	ChessSokoban
Chess Dungeons 2022	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut	$9.99	24 reviews Mostly Positive	ChessDungeon Crawler
SokoChess White 2023	Est. copies ≈ 694–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$4.99	28 reviews Positive	PuzzleChess
SokoChess Black 2023	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before Steam's cut	$4.99	11 reviews Positive	StrategyPuzzle