How much revenue did Simply Chess make?

Simply Chess is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Simply Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Simply Chess sell?

178k to 288k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 178k–288k; from 4k 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 Simply Chess out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Simply Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–1.9M

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Simply Chess

The middle of these games

≈ 81k–1.9M copies

≈ $939k–$19.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 567 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 196 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (5 of 8) and Chess (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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