How much revenue did Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition make?

$51k–$138k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 280 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $51k–$138k after Steam's cut $93k–$212k before the cut; from 280 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 Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–77k

best case 4.8M (Tabletop Simulator)

Games like Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 29k–77k copies

≈ $17k–$197k after Steam's cut

from ~900 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Chess (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Tabletop Simulator at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $19.9M–$53.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Chess (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tabletop + Board Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Trading Card Game + Card Game; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 61 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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