How many copies did Chip's Challenge 1 sell?

48k to 77k copies, based on its 976 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Chip's Challenge 1 make?

Chip's Challenge 1 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Chip's Challenge 1?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 48k–77k; from 976 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 Chip's Challenge 1 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chip's Challenge 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 96k–155k

best case 935k (Baba Is You)

Games like Chip's Challenge 1

A typical game among these

≈ 96k–155k copies

≈ $381k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Baba Is You at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 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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Ittle Dew 2013	Est. copies ≈ 85k–138k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $468k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $850k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	AdventureIndie
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Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 712k–1.2M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
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