How much revenue did Ells Tales: Chicken make?

$910–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ells Tales: Chicken sell?

Q: How many copies did Ells Tales: Chicken sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 67 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $910–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 67 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 Ells Tales: Chicken and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ells Tales: Chicken's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 321k–534k

best case 1.5M (Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator)

Games like Ells Tales: Chicken

A typical game among these

≈ 321k–534k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator at ≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies. 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 332 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Psychological Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 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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