How much revenue did Chess Knights: Viking Lands make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chess Knights: Viking Lands sell?

Q: How many copies did Chess Knights: Viking Lands sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 71 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 71 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 Knights: Viking Lands and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess Knights: Viking Lands's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 407–2k

best case 1.1M (Chants of Sennaar)

Games like Chess Knights: Viking Lands

A typical game among these

≈ 407–2k copies

≈ $683–$6k after Steam's cut

from ~34 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Chants of Sennaar at ≈ 869k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.8M–$12.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

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 Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Point & Click, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Adventure + Singleplayer + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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