How much revenue did Call of the Abyss make?

$510–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Call of the Abyss sell?

Q: How many copies did Call of the Abyss sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $510–$1k after Steam's cut $928–$2k before Steam's cut; from 15 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 Call of the Abyss and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Call of the Abyss's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–60k

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Call of the Abyss

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–60k copies

≈ $59k–$414k after Steam's cut

from ~686 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: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.6M 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 699 reviews in their first month; the range was 211 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (8 of 8) and Card Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Horror + Puzzle; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 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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Inscryption 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M 217x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.3M–$54.6M after Steam's cut $36.9M–$84.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Card BattlerCard Game
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