How much revenue did ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER make?

$26k–$69k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER sell?

Q: How many copies did ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 940 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; $26k–$69k after Steam's cut $47k–$106k before Steam's cut; from 940 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 ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 53k–60k

best case 55k (Capybara Spa)

Games like ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER

A typical game among these

≈ 53k–60k copies

≈ $171k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

3 of the 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Capybara Spa at ≈ 42k–69k copies, ≈ $93k–$249k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 69 reviews in their first month; the range was 45 to 870.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (6 of 7) and Idler (4 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $8.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 1 of the 7 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 38 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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Capybara Spa 2022	Est. copies ≈ 42k–69k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $93k–$249k after Steam's cut $169k–$384k before Steam's cut	$7.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationCasual
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