How much revenue did Call of the Abyss make?

$510–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Call of the Abyss sell?

Q: How many copies did Call of the Abyss sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $510–$1k after Steam's cut $928–$2k before the cut; from 15 reviews (Mostly 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 Call of the Abyss out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Call of the Abyss's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–60k

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Call of the Abyss

The middle of these games

≈ 16k–60k copies

≈ $59k–$411k after Steam's cut

from ~684 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: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.3M 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 701 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 211 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Battler (8 of 8) and Card Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Horror + Puzzle; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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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