How much revenue did Chessplosion make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chessplosion sell?

Q: How many copies did Chessplosion sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 154 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before Steam's cut; from 154 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 Chessplosion and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chessplosion's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 175k–243k

best case 10.7M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Chessplosion

A typical game among these

≈ 175k–243k copies

≈ $637k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.2M copies, ≈ $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 421 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Violent + Gore; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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