How much revenue did Chessformer make?

$11k–$29k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chessformer sell?

Q: How many copies did Chessformer sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 321 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $20k–$45k before the cut; from 321 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 Chessformer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chessformer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–17k

best case 292k (5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel)

Games like Chessformer

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–17k copies

≈ $14k–$53k after Steam's cut

from ~228 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.

Best case: 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel at ≈ 222k–361k copies, ≈ $733k–$2.0M 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 78 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 837.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Chess (6 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Chess + Time Travel, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Time Manipulation + Time Travel + Board Game; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 38 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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