How much revenue did Chronology make?

$77k–$208k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chronology sell?

Q: How many copies did Chronology sell?

56k to 91k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–91k; $77k–$208k after Steam's cut $140k–$319k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very 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 Chronology and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chronology's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–5.5M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like Chronology

A typical game among these

≈ 4.1M–5.5M copies

≈ $28.0M–$43.3M after Steam's cut

from ~86k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.5M–15.4M copies, ≈ $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (5 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2018, 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 38 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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Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.5M–15.4M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut $94.5M–$214.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	227k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
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