How much revenue did Cards of the Dead make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cards of the Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did Cards of the Dead sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 106 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before Steam's cut; from 106 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 Cards of the Dead and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cards of the Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–9.5M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Cards of the Dead

A typical game among these

≈ 4.6M–9.5M copies

≈ $56.6M–$95.5M after Steam's cut

from ~150k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Realistic (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Realistic (4 of 8) and Automobile Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Transportation + Moddable + Driving; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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