How much revenue did Chest Mate make?

$442–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chest Mate sell?

Q: How many copies did Chest Mate sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $442–$1k after Steam's cut $803–$2k before the cut; from 13 reviews (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 Chest Mate out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chest Mate's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 119k–188k

best case 12.9M (Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition)

Games like Chest Mate

The middle of these games

≈ 119k–188k copies

≈ $253k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at ≈ 9.8M–16.0M copies, ≈ $13.5M–$36.2M 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 37 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Zombies, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Classic + Great Soundtrack + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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 79 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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