How much revenue did Samurai Chess make?

$543–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Samurai Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Samurai Chess sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $543–$1k after Steam's cut $987–$2k before Steam's cut; from 40 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 Samurai Chess and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Samurai Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293k–448k

best case 449k (Fate Seeker II)

Games like Samurai Chess

A typical game among these

≈ 293k–448k copies

≈ $2.6M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

Best case: Fate Seeker II at ≈ 342k–556k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 253 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Martial Arts (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Martial Arts + Action RPG, priced around $23.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 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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Ninja Stealth 2016	Est. copies ≈ 78k–127k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $107k–$288k after Steam's cut $195k–$443k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	StealthStrategy
河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon) 2018	Est. copies ≈ 338k–548k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.9M before Steam's cut	$17.99	11k reviews Very Positive	RPGMartial Arts
Fate Seeker 2018	Est. copies ≈ 408k–663k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.8M before Steam's cut	$21.09	13k reviews Very Positive	RPGMartial Arts
Fate Seeker II 2021	Est. copies ≈ 342k–556k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before Steam's cut	$22.60	14k reviews Very Positive	RPGMartial Arts
The Wind Road 2020	Est. copies ≈ 169k–275k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	7k reviews Mixed	RPGAction
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel 2020	Est. copies ≈ 223k–362k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $735k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$11.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ChessTime Travel
King of the Bridge 2024	Est. copies ≈ 44k–71k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $36k–$97k after Steam's cut $66k–$150k before Steam's cut	$2.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleStrategy
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