How much does Chinese Dark Chess make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Chinese Dark Chess earns approximately $1.1K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.

What apps are like Chinese Dark Chess?

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Who makes Chinese Dark Chess?

Chinese Dark Chess is published by xidea creator on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.

What is Chinese Dark Chess's BU Score?

Chinese Dark Chess has a BU Score of 69/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Chinese Dark Chess

Quality Score

Solid

Chinese Dark Chess

Name: Chinese Dark Chess — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Chinese Dark Chess revenue, Chinese Dark Chess app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Board revenue, Android app revenue

by xidea creator

High confidence

4.4 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Chinese Dark Chess is an Android app from xidea creator in the Board category, currently rated 4.4★ across 10,168 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Board app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$5.0K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$5.2K – $10.8K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$6.4K – $19.2K

per month

MID tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Reviews

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Forecast Revenue / mo

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Snapshots tracked

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$115K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $85K – $155K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost

Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.

Where the money goes

🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship)	+$28K
📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K	+$22K
⚙ Board complexity ×1.50	+$25K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$41K

Total estimate $115K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$15K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 14× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.1× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.

How the multiple was built

📺 Ad-supported base	15× MRR
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Board category multiple	-12%

Final multiple 14× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

1.4M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

140K

Daily active

35K

Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.

How we sized it

📲 Board engagement	~140 installs / rating
🔁 Board D30 retention	10%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.25

DAU / MAU 25% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🤖

Native Android (Kotlin)

Medium confidence · 55%

Also possible

Flutter

Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.

Signals we read

🏷 Category context	Board
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$4.7K – $7.9K

12 months

$5.2K – $10.8K

24 months

$6.4K – $19.2K

Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

8.9

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

7.5

Operational Safety

9.0

Founder Strength

5.5

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.43★ across 10,168 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 213d ago — slow cadence.
⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.

🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.

Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.

Range:

💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL

Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.

🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 7 of 7 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Mid install base (10,168 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
Mature app (15y old)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
Good rating (4.4★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Chinese Dark Chess
Developer: xidea creator
Bundle ID: com.xidea.ChineseDarkChess
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Board
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: xideacreator.blogspot.com
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $195/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Founder data not yet collected for this app.

Funding

Funding data not yet collected for this app.

Press & Links

Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.

Contacts & Socials

Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.

📈Ratings growth10,168 ratings+10% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.

📝 About this app

Chinese Dark Chess , or Half Chess, is a two players board game, played on a 4x8 grid. Most games last between ten and twenty minutes. It is a social game, usually played for fun rather than serious competition.

Don’t worry about the Chinese characters, for foreign friends, we design the image chess for you.

We always do our best to test the program while we release it. However, there are various models of mobile phone for Android system. Please kindly Email to us , tell us what step cause bug. We very appreciate your understanding and support.

App Specs

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🔖 v1.9.2🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Board💰 Free📺 Ad-supported

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

2 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →

2026-07

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Refreshed store screenshots — 5 of 5 updated

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: rating −0.21★ · reviews −45 high confidence

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Store Page History

5 SCREENSHOT CHANGES

Every time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.

iPhone screenshots

Slot 1
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Now

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2 ver.

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Slot 5
2 ver.

2026-05-09

Now

2026-07-13

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

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