How much revenue did Card Cowboy make?

$816–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Card Cowboy sell?

Q: How many copies did Card Cowboy sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $816–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 40 reviews (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 Card Cowboy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Card Cowboy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–142k

best case 1.1M (Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut)

Games like Card Cowboy

The middle of these games

≈ 65k–142k copies

≈ $591k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Choices Matter (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at ≈ 837k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 903 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 313 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (4 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choices Matter, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Lore-Rich + Visual Novel; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut 2023	Est. copies ≈ 837k–1.4M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut $7.5M–$17.1M before the cut	$17.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelChoices Matter
The Nameless: Slay Dragon 2024	Est. copies ≈ 53k–86k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $262k–$705k after Steam's cut $477k–$1.1M before the cut	$17.99	2k reviews Very Positive	RPGAdventure
Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum 2023	Est. copies ≈ 43k–70k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $236k–$634k after Steam's cut $429k–$976k before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	HorrorRPG
Vagrus - The Riven Realms 2021	Est. copies ≈ 46k–75k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $379k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $689k–$1.6M before the cut	$29.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Story RichOpen World
The Age of Decadence 2015	Est. copies ≈ 197k–321k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $813k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based CombatChoices Matter
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 2022	Est. copies ≈ 119k–193k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $818k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut	$24.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choices MatterLife Sim
Gedonia 2022	Est. copies ≈ 98k–158k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $402k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $731k–$1.7M before the cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Shadows Over Loathing 2022	Est. copies ≈ 82k–134k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $520k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $945k–$2.2M before the cut	$22.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureRPG