How much revenue did Cards of Cthulhu make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cards of Cthulhu sell?

Q: How many copies did Cards of Cthulhu sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 356 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before Steam's cut; from 356 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 Cthulhu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cards of Cthulhu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k

best case 31k (Necroking)

Games like Cards of Cthulhu

A typical game among these

≈ 3k copies

≈ $6k–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~103 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Necroking at ≈ 24k–39k copies, ≈ $33k–$88k 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 74 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 516.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (6 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Card Game, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Rogue-lite + Card Game + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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