How much revenue did Grandmaster's Revenge make?

$490–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grandmaster's Revenge sell?

Q: How many copies did Grandmaster's Revenge sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $490–$1k after Steam's cut $891–$2k before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Grandmaster's Revenge out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grandmaster's Revenge's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–32k

best case 292k (5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel)

Games like Grandmaster's Revenge

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–32k copies

≈ $72k–$113k after Steam's cut

from ~570 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel at ≈ 222k–361k copies, ≈ $733k–$2.0M 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 163 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 78 to 837.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Chess (5 of 8) and Board Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Chess + Time Travel, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Time Travel + Time Manipulation + Turn-Based Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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