How much revenue did CHAQS make?

$4k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CHAQS sell?

Q: How many copies did CHAQS sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 52 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before the cut; from 52 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 CHAQS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CHAQS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.2M

best case 5.5M (Watch_Dogs® 2)

Games like CHAQS

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–2.2M copies

≈ $3.1M–$21.3M after Steam's cut

from ~25k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Watch_Dogs® 2 at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $57.9M–$155.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hacking (5 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Hacking, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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