How much revenue did Ragnarok Chess make?

$502–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ragnarok Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Ragnarok Chess sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $502–$1k after Steam's cut $913–$2k before the cut; from 37 reviews (Mixed)

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 Ragnarok Chess out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ragnarok Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 212k–487k

best case 708k (WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship)

Games like Ragnarok Chess

The middle of these games

≈ 212k–487k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Turn-Based (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: WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship at ≈ 539k–876k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based (4 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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