How much revenue did Wulin Chess make?

$40k–$107k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wulin Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Wulin Chess sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 487 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $40k–$107k after Steam's cut $72k–$165k before Steam's cut; from 487 reviews (Mostly 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 Wulin Chess and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wulin Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 62k–114k

best case 172k (Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster)

Games like Wulin Chess

A typical game among these

≈ 62k–114k copies

≈ $450k–$877k 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-like (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: Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster at ≈ 131k–214k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 904 reviews in their first month; the range was 150 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (4 of 8) and Strategy RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Creature Collector, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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 70 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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