How many copies did Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links sell?

1.5M to 2.5M copies, based on its 45k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links make?

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1.5M–2.5M; from 45k 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 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 623k–1.8M

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

A typical game among these

≈ 623k–1.8M copies

≈ $9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (4 of 8) and Board Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Wizard101 2018	Est. copies ≈ 293k–476k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	10k reviews Very Positive	ColorfulMMORPG
Magic Duels 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayCard Game
Dota Underlords 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	91k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStrategy
MONOPOLY® PLUS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 568k–924k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Mixed	Board GameMultiplayer
Shadowverse CCG 2016	Est. copies ≈ 627k–1.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayCard Battler
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