How much revenue did Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess) make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess) sell?

Q: How many copies did Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess) sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 127 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before Steam's cut; from 127 reviews (Mostly 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 Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–170k

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess)

A typical game among these

≈ 27k–170k copies

≈ $102k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Chess (6 of 8) and Board Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical. The breakout hits carry Auto Battler + Tactical + Turn-Based Tactics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2021, 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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