How much revenue did Card Detective make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Card Detective sell?

Q: How many copies did Card Detective sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 189 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut; from 189 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 Card Detective and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Card Detective's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–31k

best case 223k (Depersonalization)

Games like Card Detective

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–31k copies

≈ $92k–$165k after Steam's cut

from ~513 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Depersonalization at ≈ 170k–277k copies, ≈ $936k–$2.5M 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 276 reviews in their first month; the range was 171 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (6 of 8) and Card Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Lovecraftian + Investigation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Lovecraftian + Pixel Graphics + Investigation; 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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