How much revenue did Chess Knights: High Noon make?

$978–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chess Knights: High Noon sell?

Q: How many copies did Chess Knights: High Noon sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 48 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $978–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 48 reviews (Mixed)

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: High Noon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess Knights: High Noon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 105k–357k

best case 896k (Into the Breach)

Games like Chess Knights: High Noon

A typical game among these

≈ 105k–357k copies

≈ $1.2M–$3.1M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Into the Breach at ≈ 682k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 5k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (5 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 3 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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