How much revenue did BOT.vinnik Chess: Mid-Century USSR Championships make?

$489–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BOT.vinnik Chess: Mid-Century USSR Championships sell?

Q: How many copies did BOT.vinnik Chess: Mid-Century USSR Championships sell?

893 to 1k copies, based on its 36 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 893–1k; $489–$1k after Steam's cut $889–$2k before Steam's cut; from 36 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: Mid-Century USSR Championships and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BOT.vinnik Chess: Mid-Century USSR Championships's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–248k

best case 1.4M (FPS Chess)

Games like BOT.vinnik Chess: Mid-Century USSR Championships

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–248k copies

≈ $34k–$410k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FPS Chess at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 144 reviews in their first month; the range was 53 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (6 of 8) and Chess (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
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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