How much revenue did Card Creator make?

$213k–$572k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Card Creator sell?

Q: How many copies did Card Creator sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 562 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $213k–$572k after Steam's cut $387k–$879k before Steam's cut; from 562 reviews (Mixed)

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 Card Creator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Card Creator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 425k–1.2M

best case 4.8M (Tabletop Simulator)

Games like Card Creator

A typical game among these

≈ 425k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.0M–$9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Tabletop Simulator at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $20.0M–$53.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (8 of 8) and Tabletop (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tabletop + Board Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2020, and none of them 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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