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How many copies did 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 222k–361k
$733k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut
from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 130k–434k
best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)
Games like 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel

The middle of these games

≈ 130k–434k copies

≈ $1.0M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–13.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Time Manipulation (6 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Singleplayer + Cinematic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 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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