How many copies did Life Tastes Like Cardboard sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 337 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Life Tastes Like Cardboard make?

Life Tastes Like Cardboard is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Life Tastes Like Cardboard?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 10k–16k; from 337 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Life Tastes Like Cardboard and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Life Tastes Like Cardboard's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–230k

best case 523k (The Cat Lady)

Games like Life Tastes Like Cardboard

A typical game among these

≈ 58k–230k copies

≈ $318k–$635k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: The Cat Lady at ≈ 398k–648k copies, ≈ $985k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 173 reviews in their first month; the range was 121 to 551.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Emotional (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Story Rich, priced around $9.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

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 79 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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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 142k–231k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $156k–$420k after Steam's cut $284k–$646k before Steam's cut	$3.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Point & ClickHand-drawn
The Cat Lady 2013	Est. copies ≈ 398k–648k 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $985k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before Steam's cut	$8.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Horror Story Rich
DEAD LETTER DEPT. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 46k–75k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $190k–$511k after Steam's cut $345k–$786k before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorTyping
The Bridge 2013	Est. copies ≈ 275k–447k 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $756k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerHand-drawn
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The Void 2009	Est. copies ≈ 75k–123k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $207k–$557k after Steam's cut $377k–$858k before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Very Positive	SurrealNudity
That Dragon, Cancer 2016	Est. copies ≈ 65k–105k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $178k–$479k after Steam's cut $324k–$737k before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	IndieStory Rich
The Almost Gone 2020	Est. copies ≈ 30k–50k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $84k–$225k after Steam's cut $152k–$346k before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Very Positive	PuzzlePoint & Click