How many copies did Chicken Invaders Universe sell?

95k to 154k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Chicken Invaders Universe make?

Chicken Invaders Universe is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Chicken Invaders Universe?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 95k–154k; from 4k 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 Chicken Invaders Universe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chicken Invaders Universe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–6.7M

best case 6.7M (Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition)

Games like Chicken Invaders Universe

A typical game among these

≈ 3.3M–6.7M copies

≈ $22.2M–$38.3M after Steam's cut

from ~105k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (3 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: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $27.9M–$75.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the range was 18k to 58k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 8) and Action Roguelike (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $27.9M–$75.1M after Steam's cut $50.8M–$115.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	205k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
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Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.2M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	204k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
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