How much revenue did Jessie 'Boom' James - a jigsaw chess tale make?

$326–$876 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Jessie 'Boom' James - a jigsaw chess tale sell?

Q: How many copies did Jessie 'Boom' James - a jigsaw chess tale sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $326–$876 after Steam's cut $592–$1k before the cut; from 24 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 Jessie 'Boom' James - a jigsaw chess tale out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jessie 'Boom' James - a jigsaw chess tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–7k

best case 47k (Depraved)

Games like Jessie 'Boom' James - a jigsaw chess tale

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–7k copies

≈ $13k–$36k after Steam's cut

from ~110 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Shooter (3 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: Depraved at ≈ 36k–59k copies, ≈ $198k–$533k 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 41 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 107.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (3 of 8) and Western (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Management + City Builder + Colony Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 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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El Hijo - A Wild West Tale 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $31k–$84k after Steam's cut $57k–$129k before the cut	$19.99	229 reviews Very Positive	CasualExploration
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