How much revenue did Wulin Chess make?

$40k–$107k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wulin Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Wulin Chess sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 487 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $40k–$107k after Steam's cut $72k–$165k before the cut; from 487 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 Wulin Chess out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wulin Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 61k–113k

best case 171k (Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster)

Games like Wulin Chess

The middle of these games

≈ 61k–113k copies

≈ $447k–$872k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Rogue-like (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: Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster at ≈ 130k–211k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 904 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 150 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (4 of 8) and Strategy RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Creature Collector, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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