How much revenue did Arcano: The Trickery make?

$409–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Arcano: The Trickery sell?

Q: How many copies did Arcano: The Trickery sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before Steam's cut; from 12 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 Arcano: The Trickery and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Arcano: The Trickery's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 178k–540k

best case 1.0M (Armello)

Games like Arcano: The Trickery

A typical game among these

≈ 178k–540k copies

≈ $843k–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Armello at ≈ 784k–1.3M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 756 reviews in their first month; the range was 653 to 778.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (8 of 8) and Card Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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).

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