How much revenue did Chained Echoes make?

$1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chained Echoes sell?

Q: How many copies did Chained Echoes sell?

205k to 333k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 205k–333k; $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.8M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Chained Echoes and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Chained Echoes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–569k

best case 738k (CrossCode)

Games like Chained Echoes

A typical game among these

≈ 41k–569k copies

≈ $246k–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

3 of the 4 similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: CrossCode at ≈ 562k–914k copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (3 of 4) and Female Protagonist (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Female Protagonist, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 for the oldest, 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
Rise of the Third Power 2022	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $82k–$220k after Steam's cut $149k–$339k before Steam's cut	$19.99	601 reviews Very Positive	RPGJRPG
Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition 2023	Est. copies ≈ 390k–634k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut	$34.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsJRPG
Cosmic Star Heroine 2017	Est. copies ≈ 36k–59k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $150k–$404k after Steam's cut $273k–$621k before Steam's cut	$14.99	1k reviews Very Positive	JRPGRPG
CrossCode 2018	Est. copies ≈ 562k–914k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Action RPGPixel Graphics