How much revenue did Stress Chess make?

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

How many copies did Stress Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Stress Chess sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 55 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 55 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 Stress Chess and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stress Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 134k–470k

best case 2.0M (Stormworks: Build and Rescue)

Games like Stress Chess

A typical game among these

≈ 134k–470k copies

≈ $344k–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Stormworks: Build and Rescue at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 243 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Education (5 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Base-Building, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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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