How much revenue did 3D Chess make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 3D Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did 3D Chess sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 175 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before Steam's cut; from 175 reviews (Mixed)

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 3D Chess and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 3D Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 979–2k

best case 105k (Chess Ultra)

Games like 3D Chess

A typical game among these

≈ 979–2k copies

≈ $834–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~35 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Chess Ultra at ≈ 80k–130k copies, ≈ $285k–$766k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 20.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tabletop (8 of 8) and Board Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Tabletop, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Strategy + Indie + Board Game; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. 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 43 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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