How much revenue did WizardChess make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WizardChess sell?

Q: How many copies did WizardChess sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 92 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut; from 92 reviews (Mostly 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 WizardChess out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WizardChess's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–6k

best case 57k (King of the Bridge)

Games like WizardChess

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–6k copies

≈ $2k–$15k after Steam's cut

from ~96 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: King of the Bridge at ≈ 44k–71k copies, ≈ $36k–$97k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 28 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 253.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Chess (6 of 8) and Board Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Chess, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Comedy + Multiple Endings + Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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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