How much revenue did Simply Chess make?

Simply Chess is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Simply Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Simply Chess sell?

178k to 289k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 178k–289k; from 4k 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 Simply Chess and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Simply Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–1.9M

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Simply Chess

A typical game among these

≈ 81k–1.9M copies

≈ $940k–$19.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 566 reviews in their first month; the range was 196 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (5 of 8) and Chess (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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 61 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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