How much revenue did Deckline make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deckline sell?

Q: How many copies did Deckline sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 348 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut; from 348 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 Deckline and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deckline's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 321k–568k

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like Deckline

A typical game among these

≈ 321k–568k copies

≈ $1.9M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Card Game (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 51k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (4 of 8) and Board Game (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Card Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, 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 43 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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