How much revenue did Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator make?

$65k–$176k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 479 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $65k–$176k after Steam's cut $119k–$270k before Steam's cut; from 479 reviews (Mostly 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 Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.7M

best case 2.7M (Supermarket Simulator)

Games like Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–1.7M copies

≈ $11.3M–$21.2M after Steam's cut

from ~45k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Supermarket Simulator at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies, ≈ $11.5M–$30.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the range was 148 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2026, and 3 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 52 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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Supermarket Simulator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.5M–$30.9M after Steam's cut $20.9M–$47.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	84k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Management
Rise of Industry 2019	Est. copies ≈ 121k–196k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $997k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	ManagementStrategy
TCG Card Shop Simulator 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	51k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Management
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Turmoil 2016	Est. copies ≈ 673k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$9.9M before Steam's cut	$12.99	16k reviews Very Positive	ManagementMining
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