How much revenue did TCG Card Shop Simulator make?

$6.7M–$18.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TCG Card Shop Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did TCG Card Shop Simulator sell?

1.2M to 2.0M copies, based on its 49k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–2.0M; $6.7M–$18.1M after Steam's cut $12.2M–$27.8M before the cut; from 49k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 TCG Card Shop Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including TCG Card Shop Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–3.9M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like TCG Card Shop Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–3.9M copies

≈ $21.2M–$64.1M after Steam's cut

from ~76k reviews

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

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 6) and Management (4 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Transportation + Automobile Sim + Moddable; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 1 of your 6 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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