How much revenue did Chrysalis make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chrysalis sell?

Q: How many copies did Chrysalis sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 120 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before the cut; from 120 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Chrysalis out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chrysalis's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 120k–166k

best case 1.0M (Dungeon of the ENDLESS™)

Games like Chrysalis

The middle of these games

≈ 120k–166k copies

≈ $645k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ at ≈ 787k–1.3M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 555 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Tower Defense (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Rogue-like, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Mining + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 70 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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