How much revenue did Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days 2 make?

$312k–$838k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days 2 sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 653 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $312k–$838k after Steam's cut $567k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 653 reviews (Mixed)

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 Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–17k

best case 37k (Shadowhand: RPG Card Game)

Games like Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days 2

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–17k copies

≈ $48k–$105k after Steam's cut

from ~351 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Shadowhand: RPG Card Game at ≈ 28k–46k copies, ≈ $133k–$358k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 84 reviews in their first month; the range was 32 to 371.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with CRPG + Visual Novel, priced around $17.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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