How much revenue did Chess Dungeons: Shubousha make?

$340–$918 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chess Dungeons: Shubousha sell?

Q: How many copies did Chess Dungeons: Shubousha sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 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 Chess Dungeons: Shubousha out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chess Dungeons: Shubousha's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–15k

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Chess Dungeons: Shubousha

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–15k copies

≈ $28k–$59k after Steam's cut

from ~280 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: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 130 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 105 to 297.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Chess (7 of 8) and Board Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical, priced around $12.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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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