How much revenue did Arcanium: Rise of Akhan make?

$111k–$299k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Arcanium: Rise of Akhan sell?

Q: How many copies did Arcanium: Rise of Akhan sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 815 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $111k–$299k after Steam's cut $202k–$460k before the cut; from 815 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Arcanium: Rise of Akhan out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Arcanium: Rise of Akhan's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 281k–988k

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

The middle of these games

≈ 281k–988k copies

≈ $2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 5.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Battler (8 of 8) and Card Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 of your 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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