How much revenue did Decent Checkers make?

$312–$839 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Decent Checkers sell?

Q: How many copies did Decent Checkers sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $312–$839 after Steam's cut $567–$1k before the cut; from 23 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 Decent Checkers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Decent Checkers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–13k

best case 34k (GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena)

Games like Decent Checkers

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–13k copies

≈ $4k–$76k after Steam's cut

from ~181 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena at ≈ 26k–42k copies, ≈ $107k–$287k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 167.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Competitive (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Artificial Intelligence + Competitive, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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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