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How big is Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 171k–278k
from 7k 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 Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 408k–1.9M
best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)
Games like Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game

A typical game among these

≈ 408k–1.9M copies

≈ $80.2M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut.

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 Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $25.
When they shipped
None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. 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 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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