How much revenue did Chill Pulse make?

$165k–$443k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chill Pulse sell?

Q: How many copies did Chill Pulse sell?

120k to 195k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 120k–195k; $165k–$443k after Steam's cut $299k–$681k before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Chill Pulse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chill Pulse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–12k

best case 141k (Ropuka's Idle Island)

Games like Chill Pulse

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–12k copies

≈ $4k–$21k after Steam's cut

from ~290 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Ropuka's Idle Island at ≈ 107k–174k copies, ≈ $118k–$316k 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 52 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 930.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Utilities (8 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Cozy, priced around $4. The breakout hits carry Building + Clicker + Nature; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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