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How many copies did Checkmate Showdown sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 6k–10k
$33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before the cut
from 239 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 Checkmate Showdown out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Checkmate Showdown's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–2.8M
best case 4.3M (MORDHAU)
Games like Checkmate Showdown

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–2.8M copies

≈ $37.1M–$48.6M after Steam's cut

from ~72k 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: MORDHAU at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $26.9M–$72.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 48k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Fighting (6 of 8) and 2D Fighter (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Medieval + First-Person, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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