How many copies has Chess Ultra sold?

indielist estimates Chess Ultra has sold between 87,456 and 204,064 units (median 145,760), derived from its 1,822 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Chess Ultra?

Chess Ultra was developed by Ripstone and published by Ripstone.

Who published Chess Ultra?

Chess Ultra was published by Ripstone, developed by Ripstone. See Ripstone's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Chess Ultra released?

Chess Ultra was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Chess Ultra have on Steam?

Chess Ultra has 1,822 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.

Is Chess Ultra worth playing?

Steam players rate Chess Ultra 75% positive across 1,822 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.

Chess Ultra

Jun 21, 2017 Action $12.99

Developer Ripstone Publisher Ripstone

Profile updated Jun 2026

Strategy and tabletop board game players get a chess-focused indie game with action listed as its primary genre. Released in 2017 by Ripstone, Chess Ultra has 2,294 Steam reviews at 75% positive and launched at $12.99.

Chess Ultra is a 2017 Action game developed by Ripstone and published by Ripstone. On Steam it has gathered 1,822 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $13. The pairing of developer Ripstone with publisher Ripstone 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 87,000 to 204,000 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 Ultra can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,822

Positive

75%

Steam appid

518060

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

87K to 204K

units (median: 146K)

≈ $649K to $1.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

87K median 204K

+ How is this calculated?

1,822 reviews × NB(80) = 145,760 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$13	0
positive_75%	0
final NB	80

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 Ultra at roughly 87,000 to 204,000 copies, with a median around 146,000, derived from its 1,822 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.1M 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

16 observed days · window low $3.89

Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.89 to $12.99. The tracked-window low was $3.89 on 2026-06-03.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Chess Ultra sold?: indielist estimates Chess Ultra has sold between 87,456 and 204,064 units (median 145,760), derived from its 1,822 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Chess Ultra?: Chess Ultra was developed by Ripstone and published by Ripstone.
Who published Chess Ultra?: Chess Ultra was published by Ripstone, developed by Ripstone. See Ripstone's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Chess Ultra released?: Chess Ultra was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Chess Ultra have on Steam?: Chess Ultra has 1,822 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
Is Chess Ultra worth playing?: Steam players rate Chess Ultra 75% positive across 1,822 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.

Players looking for games like Chess Ultra can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Tabletop Simulator, Liar's Bar, Golf It!, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ripstone's other releases and Ripstone's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Chess Ultra 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 Ultra 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.