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How many copies did World War 3: Card Battler sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 99–161
$27–$73 after Steam's cut $49–$112 before the cut
from 4 reviews (4 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 4 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 World War 3: Card Battler out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including World War 3: Card Battler's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–662k
best case 8.2M (Slay the Spire)
Games like World War 3: Card Battler

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–662k copies

≈ $16k–$59k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.2M copies, ≈ $43.1M–$116.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 73 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 660.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Card Game (6 of 8) and Comedy (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 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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94x vs typical
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$24.99
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