How much revenue did Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder make?

$106k–$286k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder sell?

Q: How many copies did Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 624 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $106k–$286k after Steam's cut $193k–$440k before Steam's cut; from 624 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 Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 442k–574k

best case 1.4M (RISK: Global Domination)

Games like Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder

A typical game among these

≈ 442k–574k copies

≈ $2.5M–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: RISK: Global Domination at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies. 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 835 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (5 of 8) and Turn-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Board Game + Turn-Based Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
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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