How big is the Deckbuilding market on Steam?

A typical Deckbuilding game sells 124 to 202 copies, and the top decile 1.2M to 2.0M, based on the 54 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What Deckbuilding games usually sell on Steam

What Deckbuilding games sell on Steam, shown two ways: a SteamSpy sample of the whole genre, and the Deckbuilding games people have looked up here.

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 124–202 copies

$340–$918 after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies

$3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 54 Deckbuilding games sit with 3 of them.

Based on the 54 Deckbuilding games SteamSpy listed on November 15, 2026. It misses the games that barely sold, so these figures flatter the genre. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Copies are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Deckbuilding games gathered on wishvane

Across the 356 Deckbuilding games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 70k–75k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, Slay the Spire, at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than SteamSpy's figures above.

The Deckbuilding games gathered here span 2011 to 2026, and 150 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest Deckbuilding games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Rogue-like and Arcade.
Across the Deckbuilding games gathered here a typical price is $12.99, and the biggest charge more, around $20.

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