How much revenue did Dealer's Life make?

$105k–$283k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dealer's Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Dealer's Life sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–62k; $105k–$283k after Steam's cut $191k–$435k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Dealer's Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dealer's Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–835k

best case 1.7M (TCG Card Shop Simulator)

Games like Dealer's Life

A typical game among these

≈ 47k–835k copies

≈ $199k–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: TCG Card Shop Simulator at ≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.9M–$18.6M 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 73 to 51k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (5 of 8) and Capitalism (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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Dealer's Life 2 2022	Est. copies ≈ 105k–171k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $433k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $788k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	TradingManagement
TCG Card Shop Simulator 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	51k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Management
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