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 130 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 $22k–$49k before Steam's cut; from 130 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 Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 83k–91k

best case 265k (Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator)

Games like Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 83k–91k copies

≈ $704k–$837k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator at ≈ 202k–327k copies, ≈ $997k–$2.7M 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 984 reviews in their first month; the range was 558 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (6 of 8) and Time Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Realistic, priced around $19.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre 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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