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How many copies did ChaosWorld sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 273–443
$224–$603 after Steam's cut $408–$927 before the cut
from 11 reviews (Negative)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–5.0M
best case 8.4M (DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin)
Games like ChaosWorld

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–5.0M copies

≈ $25.1M–$51.3M after Steam's cut

from ~53k 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: DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin at ≈ 6.4M–10.4M copies, ≈ $70.7M–$190.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 28 to 44k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Souls-like (5 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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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≈ 1.3M–2.1M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before the cut
$14.99
53k reviews
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≈ 2.6M–4.3M
SteamSpy 500k–1M
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$28.8M–$77.5M after Steam's cut $52.4M–$119.2M before the cut
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DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
2015
Est. copies
≈ 6.4M–10.4M
2.5x vs typical
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≈ 1.3M–2.1M
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≈ 1k–2k
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Mixed
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