How much revenue did Chess Brain: Dark Troops make?

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

How many copies did Chess Brain: Dark Troops sell?

Q: How many copies did Chess Brain: Dark Troops sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 64 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 $2k–$5k before the cut; from 64 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 Brain: Dark Troops out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess Brain: Dark Troops's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–24k

best case 292k (5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel)

Games like Chess Brain: Dark Troops

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–24k copies

≈ $8k–$69k after Steam's cut

from ~401 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel at ≈ 222k–361k copies, ≈ $733k–$2.0M 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 78 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 837.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (7 of 8) and Chess (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Chess + Time Travel, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Time Travel + Time Manipulation + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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