How much revenue did Ascension: Deckbuilding Game make?

$265k–$713k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ascension: Deckbuilding Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Ascension: Deckbuilding Game sell?

96k to 157k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 96k–157k; $265k–$713k after Steam's cut $482k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Ascension: Deckbuilding Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ascension: Deckbuilding Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–172k

best case 257k (Duelyst)

Games like Ascension: Deckbuilding Game

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–172k copies

≈ $630k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Duelyst at ≈ 196k–319k copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had roughly 2k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (8 of 8) and Deckbuilding (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Deckbuilding.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 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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