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Action indie game Chess Survivors launched in 2023 from developer and publisher aarimous. It has 154 Steam reviews with 84% positive, suggesting a modest but well-liked hidden gem, and its $4.99 launch price puts it in the budget indie range.
Overview
Chess Survivors is a 2023 Action game developed by Aarimous and published by Aarimous. On Steam it has gathered 155 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Aarimous with publisher Aarimous is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3,000 to 7,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Chess Survivors can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
155
Positive
85%
Steam appid
2065000
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.03K to 7K
units (median: 5K)
≈ $8K to $19K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_85% | 0 |
| final NB | 30 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Chess Survivors at roughly 3,000 to 7,000 copies, with a median around 5,000, derived from its 155 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $13K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
14 observed days · window low $2.49Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-07-20.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Chess Survivors sold?
- indielist estimates Chess Survivors has sold between 2,790 and 6,510 units (median 4,650), derived from its 155 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Chess Survivors?
- Chess Survivors was developed by Aarimous and published by Aarimous.
- Who published Chess Survivors?
- Chess Survivors was published by Aarimous, developed by Aarimous. See Aarimous's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Chess Survivors released?
- Chess Survivors was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Chess Survivors have on Steam?
- Chess Survivors has 155 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Chess Survivors worth playing?
- Steam players rate Chess Survivors 85% positive across 155 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Chess Survivors can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Aarimous's other releases and Aarimous's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Chess Survivors sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Chess Survivors page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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