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Should I ship a Chess Sports game?
Sports + Chess
Only 6 developers shipped a Chess Sports game in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, Master of Chess, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $6.7k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $898 (exactly $898) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.7k (exactly $6,712) |
| Top 25% | $25k (exactly $25,175) |
| Top 5% | $174k (exactly $173,913) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue too few recent games to read momentum, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Sports, Chess
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 2,986 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 11 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Chess Ultra 2017 · $714k 
Master of Chess 2025 · $174k 
Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition 2016 · $112k 
Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess) 2018 · $59k 
3D Math - Ultra 2020 · $33k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Chess Ultra | older | $12.99 | 1,832 76% | 55k | $714k (exactly $713,930) | Ripstone |
| | Master of Chess | $19.99 | 290 83% | 8.7k | $174k (exactly $173,913) | BRANE | |
| | Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition | older | $15.99 | 233 74% | 7.0k | $112k (exactly $111,770) | Ripstone |
| | Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure (Chess) | older | $19.99 | 99 74% | 3.0k | $59k (exactly $59,370) | Pixel Wizards |
| | 3D Math - Ultra | older | $4.99 | 218 92% | 6.5k | $33k (exactly $32,635) | Big Mind Games 9000 |
 | Chess Infinity | $9.99 | 84 63% | 2.5k | $25k (exactly $25,175) | Rockwater Games | |
 | Chess | older | $24.99 | 29 3% | 870 | $22k (exactly $21,741) | baKno Games |
 | 3D Chess | older | $4.99 | 130 52% | 3.9k | $19k (exactly $19,461) | bumblebee |
 | ALL Chess | older | $9.99 | 43 72% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $12,887) | XDG GAME STUDIO |
 | Shattered Chess | $7.99 | 28 100% | 840 | $6.7k (exactly $6,712) | Arti Works | |
 | Chess of Mana | $8.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $4.6k (exactly $4,585) | Monk Monkey | |
 | Checkers Kingdom | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Pinch Games | |
 | Hexachess | $4.51 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tricky Chaos |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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