How much revenue did MASSIVE CHALICE make?

$512k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MASSIVE CHALICE sell?

Q: How many copies did MASSIVE CHALICE sell?

93k to 151k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 93k–151k; $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $931k–$2.1M before the cut; from 2k 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 MASSIVE CHALICE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MASSIVE CHALICE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–3.8M

best case 6.0M (XCOM® 2)

Games like MASSIVE CHALICE

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–3.8M copies

≈ $14.3M–$26.2M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: XCOM® 2 at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $25.0M–$67.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Isometric + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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