How much revenue did Cards of Chaos make?

Cards of Chaos is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Cards of Chaos sell?

Q: How many copies did Cards of Chaos sell?

654 to 1k copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 654–1k; from 19 reviews (Mostly 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 Cards of Chaos and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cards of Chaos's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 338k–5.9M

best case 20.7M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like Cards of Chaos

A typical game among these

≈ 338k–5.9M copies

≈ $1.8M–$91.8M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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 Simulation (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: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.8M–25.7M copies, ≈ $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 316 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and 4X (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.7M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut $473.7M–$1077.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	380k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Opus Magnum 2017	Est. copies ≈ 250k–407k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleProgramming
Sid Meier's Civilization® V 2010	Est. copies ≈ 13.3M–21.7M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.0M–$295.6M after Steam's cut $199.9M–$454.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	211k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Turn-Based StrategyStrategy
Kill It With Fire 2020	Est. copies ≈ 137k–222k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $488k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $888k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$12.99	6k reviews Very Positive	ActionSimulation
Sid Meier's Civilization VII 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut $54.1M–$123.0M before Steam's cut	$69.99	62k reviews Mixed	Grand StrategyHistorical
Drunken Wrestlers 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 541k–879k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $594k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$3.99	19k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessMultiplayer
Ale & Tale Tavern 2024	Est. copies ≈ 259k–422k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	10k reviews Very Positive	AdventureOnline Co-Op
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes 2015	Est. copies ≈ 838k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.3M after Steam's cut $6.3M–$14.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opLocal Multiplayer