How much revenue did Chaperon Inc. make?

$81–$219 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chaperon Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Chaperon Inc. sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–34k

best case 36k (Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered)

Games like Chaperon Inc.

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–34k copies

≈ $16k–$44k after Steam's cut

from ~392 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered at ≈ 27k–45k copies, ≈ $60k–$162k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 35.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Word Game (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Spelling + Typing, priced around $8.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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