How much revenue did Chillquarium make?

$341k–$917k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chillquarium sell?

Q: How many copies did Chillquarium sell?

207k to 337k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 207k–337k; $341k–$917k after Steam's cut $620k–$1.4M before the cut; from 8k reviews (Very 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 Chillquarium out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chillquarium's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–87k

best case 279k (Tiny Pasture)

Games like Chillquarium

The middle of these games

≈ 16k–87k copies

≈ $43k–$178k after Steam's cut

from ~600 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tiny Pasture at ≈ 213k–346k copies, ≈ $350k–$942k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 300 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 61 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Creature Collector (7 of 8) and Idler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Farming Sim, priced around $6.
The era: 8 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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