How much revenue did Wild Wild Chess make?

$393–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wild Wild Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Wild Wild Chess sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 719–1k; $393–$1k after Steam's cut $715–$2k before Steam's cut; from 29 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 Wild Wild Chess and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wild Wild Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 168k–242k

best case 415k (Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic))

Games like Wild Wild Chess

A typical game among these

≈ 168k–242k copies

≈ $1.6M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic) at ≈ 316k–513k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Turn-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fantasy + Board Game, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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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