How much revenue did The Chronicler make?

$142–$385 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Chronicler sell?

Q: How many copies did The Chronicler sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $142–$385 after Steam's cut $259–$592 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–35k

best case 53k (Fish Idle 2: Underwater Mystery)

Games like The Chronicler

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–35k copies

≈ $66k–$154k after Steam's cut

from ~685 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Fish Idle 2: Underwater Mystery at ≈ 40k–65k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 146 reviews in their first month; the range was 52 to 448.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fishing (5 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Arcade.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Fishing Paradiso 2022	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$141k before Steam's cut	$14.99	333 reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsFishing
Fish Idle 2: Underwater Mystery 2024	Est. copies ≈ 40k–65k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mixed	CasualAdventure
Sea Fantasy 2025	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $62k–$167k after Steam's cut $113k–$257k before Steam's cut	$14.99	608 reviews Very Positive	Open WorldFishing
Super Raft Boat Classic 2021	Est. copies ≈ 23k–38k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	939 reviews Very Positive	ActionAction Roguelike
World's Dawn 2016	Est. copies ≈ 37k–60k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $101k–$272k after Steam's cut $184k–$419k before Steam's cut	$9.99	886 reviews Mostly Positive	Farming SimLife Sim
Lakeview Valley 2019	Est. copies ≈ 22k–36k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $90k–$243k after Steam's cut $164k–$374k before Steam's cut	$14.99	762 reviews Very Positive	CRPGTactical RPG
Intergalactic Fishing 2020	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$170k before Steam's cut	$14.99	403 reviews Very Positive	FishingRPG
HG Adventure 2023	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$80k before Steam's cut	$13.99	202 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessCasual