How much revenue did Battle Waves: Card Tactics make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Battle Waves: Card Tactics sell?

Q: How many copies did Battle Waves: Card Tactics sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 26 reviews (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 Battle Waves: Card Tactics and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battle Waves: Card Tactics's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–65k

best case 180k (Ratropolis)

Games like Battle Waves: Card Tactics

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–65k copies

≈ $34k–$444k after Steam's cut

from ~884 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ratropolis at ≈ 137k–223k copies, ≈ $680k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 371 reviews in their first month; the range was 62 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (8 of 8) and Deckbuilding (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Deckbuilding + Card Battler, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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