How much revenue did Checkmate Showdown make?

$33k–$88k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Checkmate Showdown sell?

Q: How many copies did Checkmate Showdown sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 240 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut; from 240 reviews (Mostly 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 Checkmate Showdown and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Checkmate Showdown's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–2.8M

best case 4.3M (MORDHAU)

Games like Checkmate Showdown

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–2.8M copies

≈ $37.5M–$48.7M after Steam's cut

from ~73k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: MORDHAU at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $26.9M–$72.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 12k to 48k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fighting (6 of 8) and 2D Fighter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + First-Person, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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Street Fighter™ 6 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut $39.7M–$90.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	80k reviews Very Positive	2D FighterFighting
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MORDHAU 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.3M–5.3M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.9M–$72.3M after Steam's cut $48.9M–$111.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	113k reviews Mostly Positive	MedievalMultiplayer
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