How much revenue did ChessCraft make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ChessCraft sell?

Q: How many copies did ChessCraft sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 85 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 85 reviews (Very 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 ChessCraft and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ChessCraft's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28k–1.3M

best case 4.8M (Tabletop Simulator)

Games like ChessCraft

A typical game among these

≈ 28k–1.3M copies

≈ $169k–$12.2M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Tabletop Simulator at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $20.0M–$53.8M 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 1 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tabletop + Board Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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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