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This classic JRPG, originally released in 2018, features a story-rich experience with a great soundtrack. Developed and published by Square Enix, it boasts 13,095 Steam reviews with an 88% positive rating.
Overview
CHRONO TRIGGER® is a 2018 RPG game developed by Square Enix and published by Square Enix. On Steam it has gathered 13,118 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Square Enix with publisher Square Enix is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how RPG projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 669,000 to 1.6 million 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, CHRONO TRIGGER® can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
13,118
Positive
88%
Steam appid
613830
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0669K to 1.6M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $5.7M to $13.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for CHRONO TRIGGER® at roughly 669,000 to 1.6 million copies, with a median around 1.1 million, derived from its 13,118 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.5M 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
90d · low $7.58Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $7.58 to $14.99, averaging $13.73 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $7.58 on 2026-04-27.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
JRPGRPGClassicStory RichGreat SoundtrackTime TravelSingleplayerRetroTurn-BasedPixel GraphicsFantasy2DCult ClassicAnimeMultiple EndingsSci-fiReplay ValueAdventureActionSilent Protagonist
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has CHRONO TRIGGER® sold?
- indielist estimates CHRONO TRIGGER® has sold between 669,018 and 1,561,042 units (median 1,115,030), derived from its 13,118 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed CHRONO TRIGGER®?
- CHRONO TRIGGER® was developed by Square Enix and published by Square Enix.
- When was CHRONO TRIGGER® released?
- CHRONO TRIGGER® was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does CHRONO TRIGGER® have on Steam?
- CHRONO TRIGGER® has 13,118 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions CHRONO TRIGGER® within the RPG segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Square Enix's other releases and Square Enix's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where CHRONO TRIGGER® 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 CHRONO TRIGGER® page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next RPG 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.