How much revenue did Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution make?

$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution sell?

Q: How many copies did Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution sell?

121k to 197k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–197k; $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut; from 5k 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 Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–81k

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

Games like Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–81k copies

≈ $16k–$772k after Steam's cut

from ~454 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

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

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 217 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 49 to 491.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Anime.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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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