How much revenue did Petrified Pawns make?

$899–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Petrified Pawns sell?

Q: How many copies did Petrified Pawns sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $899–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 22 reviews (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 Petrified Pawns out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Petrified Pawns's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 247k–510k

best case 872k (Darkest Dungeon® II)

Games like Petrified Pawns

The middle of these games

≈ 247k–510k copies

≈ $1.0M–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Darkest Dungeon® II at ≈ 664k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.3M–$19.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 8k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8) and Chess (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Tactics + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $40.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 38 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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