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How many copies did Little Inner Monsters - Card Game sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut
from 58 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 Little Inner Monsters - Card Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Little Inner Monsters - Card Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 166k–249k
best case 799k (Marvel's Midnight Suns)
Games like Little Inner Monsters - Card Game

A typical game among these

≈ 166k–249k copies

≈ $1.0M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Marvel's Midnight Suns at ≈ 609k–990k copies, ≈ $10.0M–$27.0M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 6k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Card Game (8 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $42. The breakout hits carry Deckbuilding + Turn-Based Strategy + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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