How much revenue did Takara Cards make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Takara Cards sell?

Q: How many copies did Takara Cards sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 145 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before Steam's cut; from 145 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 Takara Cards and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Takara Cards's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 246k–450k

best case 6.5M (Balatro)

Games like Takara Cards

A typical game among these

≈ 246k–450k copies

≈ $2.1M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Balatro at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies, ≈ $20.5M–$55.0M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (7 of 8) and Deckbuilding (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Singleplayer + Replay Value; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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