How much revenue did Master of Puppets make?

$327–$880 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Master of Puppets sell?

Q: How many copies did Master of Puppets sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $327–$880 after Steam's cut $595–$1k before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Master of Puppets out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Master of Puppets's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 126k–257k

best case 1.7M (KARDS - The WW2 Card Game)

Games like Master of Puppets

The middle of these games

≈ 126k–257k copies

≈ $792k–$996k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: KARDS - The WW2 Card Game at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 968 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (6 of 8) and Card Battler (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Dark Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 79 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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