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How many copies did CHRONOSHOT sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 10k–17k
from 417 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 CHRONOSHOT out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CHRONOSHOT's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–100k
best case 457k (Sonic CD)
Games like CHRONOSHOT

The middle of these games

≈ 27k–100k copies

≈ $172k–$480k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Arena Shooter (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Sonic CD at ≈ 348k–565k copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 530 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 28 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Arena Shooter (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + Classic.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 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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