How much revenue did Cardful Planning make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cardful Planning sell?

Q: How many copies did Cardful Planning sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before Steam's cut; from 10 reviews (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 Cardful Planning and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cardful Planning's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–93k

best case 90k (hexceed)

Games like Cardful Planning

A typical game among these

≈ 55k–93k copies

≈ $69k–$185k 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: hexceed at ≈ 69k–112k copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Stealth (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Hex Grid.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, and none of them 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Millie 2014	Est. copies ≈ 42k–69k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $47k–$125k after Steam's cut $85k–$193k before Steam's cut	$3.99	758 reviews Very Positive	CasualIndie
RetroMaze 2018	Est. copies ≈ 49k–79k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut	$0.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualIndie
Ninja Stealth 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 25k–40k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$141k before Steam's cut	$4.99	723 reviews Mixed	StealthStrategy
Ninja Stealth 2016	Est. copies ≈ 78k–127k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $107k–$288k after Steam's cut $195k–$443k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	StealthStrategy
Chip's Challenge 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 48k–77k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	976 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleSokoban
Rollers of the Realm 2014	Est. copies ≈ 40k–65k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $109k–$294k after Steam's cut $199k–$452k before Steam's cut	$9.99	711 reviews Very Positive	PinballRPG
I, Zombie 2014	Est. copies ≈ 147k–239k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $81k–$217k after Steam's cut $146k–$333k before Steam's cut	$1.99	3k reviews Very Positive	StealthTop-Down
hexceed 2021	Est. copies ≈ 69k–112k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayCasual