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How big is Tafl Champions: Ancient Chess?

Estimated owners
≈ 546–887
from 22 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Tafl Champions: Ancient Chess out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tafl Champions: Ancient Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–12k
best case 19k (The Conquest of Go)
Games like Tafl Champions: Ancient Chess

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–12k copies

≈ $21k–$84k after Steam's cut

from ~230 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Conquest of Go at ≈ 15k–24k copies, ≈ $60k–$161k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 53 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 499.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Board Game (8 of 8) and Tabletop (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Turn-Based + Board Game, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 38 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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