How much revenue did Card Cowboy make?

$836–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Card Cowboy sell?

Q: How many copies did Card Cowboy sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $836–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 41 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 Card Cowboy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Card Cowboy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–144k

best case 1.1M (Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut)

Games like Card Cowboy

A typical game among these

≈ 66k–144k copies

≈ $600k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Choices Matter (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at ≈ 856k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.4M 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 903 reviews in their first month; the range was 312 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choices Matter (4 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choices Matter, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Lore-Rich + Visual Novel; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut 2023	Est. copies ≈ 856k–1.4M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$17.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelChoices Matter
The Nameless: Slay Dragon 2024	Est. copies ≈ 54k–87k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $265k–$713k after Steam's cut $482k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$17.99	2k reviews Very Positive	RPGAdventure
Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum 2023	Est. copies ≈ 44k–71k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $241k–$647k after Steam's cut $438k–$995k before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	HorrorRPG
Vagrus - The Riven Realms 2021	Est. copies ≈ 47k–76k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $386k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $702k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Story RichOpen World
The Age of Decadence 2015	Est. copies ≈ 198k–322k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $818k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based CombatChoices Matter
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 2022	Est. copies ≈ 120k–195k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $827k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choices MatterLife Sim
Gedonia 2022	Est. copies ≈ 98k–160k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $406k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $738k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Shadows Over Loathing 2022	Est. copies ≈ 83k–134k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $523k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $951k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$22.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureRPG