How much revenue did Death Roads: Tournament make?

$86k–$231k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Roads: Tournament sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Roads: Tournament sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 839 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; $86k–$231k after Steam's cut $156k–$355k before Steam's cut; from 839 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 Death Roads: Tournament and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Roads: Tournament's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 128k–148k

best case 749k (Monster Train)

Games like Death Roads: Tournament

A typical game among these

≈ 128k–148k copies

≈ $944k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Monster Train at ≈ 570k–927k copies, ≈ $3.9M–$10.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Deckbuilding (6 of 8) and Roguelike Deckbuilder (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Card Game, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Rogue-lite + Card Game + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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