How much revenue did Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator make?

$12k–$32k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 129 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $21k–$49k before the cut; from 129 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 85k–96k

best case 264k (Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator)

Games like Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 85k–96k copies

≈ $744k–$853k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator at ≈ 201k–327k copies, ≈ $995k–$2.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 985 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 560 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (6 of 8) and Time Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management, priced around $20.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 36 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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