How much revenue did Chess Knights: Shinobi make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chess Knights: Shinobi sell?

Q: How many copies did Chess Knights: Shinobi sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 70 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 70 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 Chess Knights: Shinobi out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess Knights: Shinobi's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 280k–1.3M

best case 1.5M (DDNet)

Games like Chess Knights: Shinobi

The middle of these games

≈ 280k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.3M–$9.7M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DDNet at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 1k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Stealth (5 of 8) and Ninja (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Samurai Chess 2021	Est. copies ≈ 992–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $543–$1k after Steam's cut $987–$2k before the cut	$1.99	40 reviews Mostly Positive	ChessPuzzle
Mark of the Ninja: Remastered 2018	Est. copies ≈ 211k–342k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut	$19.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthNinja
DDNet 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	46k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpFree to Play
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice 2021	Est. copies ≈ 120k–195k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $659k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Real Time TacticsStrategy
Mark of the Ninja unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 394k–640k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Stealth Platformer
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel 2020	Est. copies ≈ 222k–361k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $733k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut	$11.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ChessTime Travel
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $17.6M–$47.2M after Steam's cut $31.9M–$72.7M before the cut	$39.99	38k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthStrategy
Chess Dungeons: Shubousha 2023	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before the cut	$9.99	5 reviews 5 user reviews	ChessCasual