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How big is Dragon Call?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 3k–4k
from 101 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Dragon Call and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dragon Call's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 320k–450k
best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)
Games like Dragon Call

A typical game among these

≈ 320k–450k copies

≈ $2.2M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 21k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Card Game (7 of 8) and Deckbuilding (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Pixel Graphics + Replay Value; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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17x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
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Card BattlerRogue-lite
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2019
Est. copies
≈ 6.3M–10.3M
19x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
$43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut $79.0M–$179.8M before Steam's cut
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Dicey Dungeons
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≈ 343k–558k
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SteamSpy 500k–1M
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Est. copies
≈ 220k–357k
SteamSpy 500k–1M
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Est. copies
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