How much revenue did Petrified Pawns make?

$899–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Petrified Pawns sell?

Q: How many copies did Petrified Pawns sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $899–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 22 reviews (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 Petrified Pawns and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Petrified Pawns's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 248k–511k

best case 881k (Darkest Dungeon® II)

Games like Petrified Pawns

A typical game among these

≈ 248k–511k copies

≈ $1.0M–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Darkest Dungeon® II at ≈ 671k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 8k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8) and Chess (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Tactics + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $40.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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Chess Dungeons: Shubousha 2023	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before Steam's cut	$9.99	5 reviews 5 user reviews	ChessCasual
Battle for the Board 2023	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $244–$660 after Steam's cut $444–$1k before Steam's cut	$11.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	ExplorationAdventure
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus 2018	Est. copies ≈ 445k–723k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	15k reviews Very Positive	Warhammer 40KStrategy
Darkest Dungeon® II 2023	Est. copies ≈ 671k–1.1M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Mostly Positive	Turn-Based Tactics Dungeon Crawler
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos 2020	Est. copies ≈ 201k–326k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$34.99	8k reviews Very Positive	RPGTurn-Based Tactics
Pawnbarian 2021	Est. copies ≈ 22k–36k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $62k–$165k after Steam's cut $112k–$254k before Steam's cut	$9.99	903 reviews Very Positive	Rogue-likeTurn-Based Combat
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate 2022	Est. copies ≈ 185k–300k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $508k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $923k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	ChessTurn-Based Strategy
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel 2020	Est. copies ≈ 223k–362k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $735k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$11.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ChessTime Travel