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How many copies did Knight Swap sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–7k
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut
from 149 reviews (Very 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 Knight Swap out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knight Swap's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 879–3k
best case 5k (Chess Brain)
Games like Knight Swap

The middle of these games

≈ 879–3k copies

≈ $883–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~40 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Chess Brain at ≈ 4k–7k copies, ≈ $1k–$3k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 24.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Sokoban + Chess, priced around $1.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Chess Brain
2020
Est. copies
≈ 4k–7k
4.1x vs typical
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut
$0.99
165 reviews
Very Positive
SokobanChess
Unlock The King 3
2020
Est. copies
≈ 2k–3k
1.9x vs typical
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$513–$1k after Steam's cut $933–$2k before the cut
$0.99
76 reviews
Mostly Positive
SokobanDifficult
Unlock The King 2
2020
Est. copies
≈ 3k–5k
3.1x vs typical
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$851–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
$0.99
126 reviews
Mostly Positive
SokobanFuturistic
SokoChess
2022
Est. copies
≈ 1k–2k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut
$4.99
45 reviews
Positive
ChessSokoban
Chesskoban Bishop
2021
Est. copies
≈ 868–1k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$237–$636 after Steam's cut $430–$978 before the cut
$0.99
35 reviews
Positive
ChessSokoban
Chess Dungeons
2022
Est. copies
≈ 595–967
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut
$9.99
24 reviews
Mostly Positive
SokoChess White
2023
Est. copies
≈ 694–1k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
$4.99
28 reviews
Positive
PuzzleChess
SokoChess Black
2023
Est. copies
≈ 273–443
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before the cut
$4.99
11 reviews
Positive
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