How much revenue did Cube Chaos make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cube Chaos sell?

Q: How many copies did Cube Chaos sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 635 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $94k–$215k before the cut; from 635 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Cube Chaos out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cube Chaos's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.7M–8.2M

best case 10.8M (Stellaris)

Games like Cube Chaos

The middle of these games

≈ 4.7M–8.2M copies

≈ $59.9M–$188.5M after Steam's cut

from ~89k 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (7 of 8) and Historical (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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