How much revenue did Chess: The Lost Pieces make?

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

How many copies did Chess: The Lost Pieces sell?

Q: How many copies did Chess: The Lost Pieces sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 22 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 Chess: The Lost Pieces out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess: The Lost Pieces's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–21k

best case 241k (Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate)

Games like Chess: The Lost Pieces

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–21k copies

≈ $9k–$82k after Steam's cut

from ~133 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: Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate at ≈ 184k–299k copies, ≈ $505k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 70 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 979.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Chess (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Chess + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $10.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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