How much revenue did CHRONOSHOT make?

CHRONOSHOT is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did CHRONOSHOT sell?

Q: How many copies did CHRONOSHOT sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 417 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; from 417 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 CHRONOSHOT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CHRONOSHOT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–101k

best case 457k (Sonic CD)

Games like CHRONOSHOT

A typical game among these

≈ 27k–101k copies

≈ $172k–$482k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arena Shooter (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Sonic CD at ≈ 348k–566k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 530 reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arena Shooter (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Classic.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 79 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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