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How big is Alley Chat Bot?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 422–685
from 17 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 Alley Chat Bot and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alley Chat Bot's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 170k–5.0M
best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)
Games like Alley Chat Bot

A typical game among these

≈ 170k–5.0M copies

≈ $5.4M–$43.8M after Steam's cut

from ~48k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M 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 419 to 5k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Software (5 of 8) and Utilities (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 7 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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