How much revenue did Chess Pills make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chess Pills sell?

Q: How many copies did Chess Pills sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 44 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 44 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 Chess Pills out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess Pills's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.9M

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Chess Pills

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–2.9M copies

≈ $1.4M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~44k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 926 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 29 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (6 of 8) and Card Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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 70 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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