How much revenue did Duelyst make?

Duelyst is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Duelyst sell?

Q: How many copies did Duelyst sell?

196k to 319k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 196k–319k; from 5k reviews (Very 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 Duelyst and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Duelyst's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 408k–1.9M

best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)

Games like Duelyst

A typical game among these

≈ 408k–1.9M copies

≈ $80.2M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (7 of 8) and Deckbuilding (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $25.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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