How much revenue did Grandmaster's Revenge make?

$490–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grandmaster's Revenge sell?

Q: How many copies did Grandmaster's Revenge sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $490–$1k after Steam's cut $891–$2k before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Grandmaster's Revenge and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grandmaster's Revenge's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–32k

best case 293k (5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel)

Games like Grandmaster's Revenge

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–32k copies

≈ $73k–$113k after Steam's cut

from ~578 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel at ≈ 223k–362k copies, ≈ $735k–$2.0M 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 163 reviews in their first month; the range was 78 to 835.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Chess (5 of 8) and Board Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Chess + Time Travel, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Time Travel + Time Manipulation + Turn-Based Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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