How much revenue did Chess Pills make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chess Pills sell?

Q: How many copies did Chess Pills sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 45 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 Chess Pills and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess Pills's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.9M

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Chess Pills

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–2.9M copies

≈ $1.4M–$9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~44k 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: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 925 reviews in their first month; the range was 29 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (6 of 8) and Card Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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 70 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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