How much revenue did Ragnarok Chess make?

$502–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ragnarok Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Ragnarok Chess sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $502–$1k after Steam's cut $913–$2k before Steam's cut; from 37 reviews (Mixed)

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 Ragnarok Chess and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ragnarok Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 213k–489k

best case 714k (WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship)

Games like Ragnarok Chess

A typical game among these

≈ 213k–489k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Turn-Based (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: WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship at ≈ 544k–884k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (4 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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