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How many copies did Chrono Ark sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 342k–555k
$2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before Steam's cut
from 14k 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 Chrono Ark and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chrono Ark's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 74k–120k
best case 129k (Alina of the Arena)
Games like Chrono Ark

A typical game among these

≈ 74k–120k copies

≈ $634k–$764k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Alina of the Arena at ≈ 98k–160k copies, ≈ $406k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 452 reviews in their first month; the range was 141 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Roguelike Deckbuilder (8 of 8) and Card Game (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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 36 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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