How much revenue did CHR$(143) make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CHR$(143) sell?

Q: How many copies did CHR$(143) sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 82 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before the cut; from 82 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 CHR$(143) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CHR$(143)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 472k–1.2M

best case 1.9M (Stormworks: Build and Rescue)

Games like CHR$(143)

The middle of these games

≈ 472k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.6M–$15.7M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Stormworks: Build and Rescue at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $10.2M–$27.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (8 of 8) and Automation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Base-Building, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 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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