How much revenue did BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons sell?

Q: How many copies did BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 128 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 128 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.9M–13.6M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like BOT.vinnik Chess: Combination Lessons

The middle of these games

≈ 7.9M–13.6M copies

≈ $54.4M–$86.7M after Steam's cut

from ~222k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 837 to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (6 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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