How much revenue did BOT.vinnik Chess: Early USSR Championships make?

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

How many copies did BOT.vinnik Chess: Early USSR Championships sell?

Q: How many copies did BOT.vinnik Chess: Early USSR Championships 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 (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 BOT.vinnik Chess: Early USSR Championships and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BOT.vinnik Chess: Early USSR Championships's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–6k

best case 293k (5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel)

Games like BOT.vinnik Chess: Early USSR Championships

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–6k copies

≈ $2k–$27k after Steam's cut

from ~128 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: 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel at ≈ 223k–362k copies, ≈ $735k–$2.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 41 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 835.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Chess (7 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Chess + Time Travel, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Time Travel + Time Manipulation; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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