How much revenue did Chippy make?

$141k–$379k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chippy sell?

Q: How many copies did Chippy sell?

34k to 56k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–56k; $141k–$379k after Steam's cut $256k–$582k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Chippy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chippy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28k–84k

best case 130k (Waves)

Games like Chippy

A typical game among these

≈ 28k–84k copies

≈ $97k–$228k after Steam's cut

from ~965 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Waves at ≈ 99k–161k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 365 reviews in their first month; the range was 215 to 492.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (8 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Shoot 'Em Up.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2024, and 3 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 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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