How much revenue did Ultimate Chicken Horse make?

$9.2M–$24.7M 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–$24.7M after Steam's cut $16.7M–$38.0M before the cut; from 54k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Ultimate Chicken Horse out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ultimate Chicken Horse's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.4M

best case 2.6M (Party Animals)

Games like Ultimate Chicken Horse

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–2.4M copies

≈ $7.1M–$15.0M after Steam's cut

from ~40k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Party Animals at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Party Game (5 of 8) and Party (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Co-op, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 of your 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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