How much revenue did Samurai Chess make?

$543–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Samurai Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Samurai Chess sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $543–$1k after Steam's cut $987–$2k before the cut; from 40 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 Samurai Chess out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Samurai Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293k–447k

best case 449k (Fate Seeker II)

Games like Samurai Chess

The middle of these games

≈ 293k–447k copies

≈ $2.6M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Fate Seeker II at ≈ 342k–556k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 253 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Martial Arts (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Martial Arts + Action RPG, priced around $23.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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