How many copies did Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards sell?

144k to 235k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards make?

Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 144k–235k; from 4k 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 Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–332k

best case 2.0M (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links)

Games like Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–332k copies

≈ $401–$392k after Steam's cut

from ~382 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 92 reviews in their first month.

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 Game (7 of 8) and Trading Card Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Anime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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