How much revenue did Ultimate Chicken Horse make?

$9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ultimate Chicken Horse sell?

Q: How many copies did Ultimate Chicken Horse sell?

2.2M to 3.6M copies, based on its 54k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.2M–3.6M; $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.8M–$38.1M before Steam's cut; from 54k 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 Ultimate Chicken Horse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ultimate Chicken Horse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.4M

best case 2.6M (Party Animals)

Games like Ultimate Chicken Horse

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–2.4M copies

≈ $7.1M–$15.1M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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: Party Animals at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 57 to 30k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (5 of 8) and Party (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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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