How much revenue did HELLCARD make?

$797k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HELLCARD sell?

Q: How many copies did HELLCARD sell?

116k to 188k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 116k–188k; $797k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 HELLCARD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HELLCARD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–294k

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like HELLCARD

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–294k copies

≈ $40k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 147 reviews in their first month; the range was 54 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (5 of 8) and Deckbuilding (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics.
When they shipped: Only 1 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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