How much revenue did Chest Mate make?

$442–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chest Mate sell?

Q: How many copies did Chest Mate sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $442–$1k after Steam's cut $803–$2k before Steam's cut; from 13 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 Chest Mate and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chest Mate's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 120k–192k

best case 13.0M (Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition)

Games like Chest Mate

A typical game among these

≈ 120k–192k copies

≈ $259k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.5M 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 37 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Zombies, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Classic + Great Soundtrack + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, 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 79 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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