How much revenue did Takara Cards make?

$15k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Takara Cards sell?

Q: How many copies did Takara Cards sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 142 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $15k–$39k after Steam's cut $26k–$60k before the cut; from 142 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 Takara Cards out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Takara Cards's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 259k–540k

best case 6.4M (Balatro)

Games like Takara Cards

The middle of these games

≈ 259k–540k copies

≈ $2.1M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Balatro at ≈ 4.9M–8.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (7 of 8) and Deckbuilding (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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