How much revenue did Cards of Chaos make?

Cards of Chaos is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Cards of Chaos sell?

Q: How many copies did Cards of Chaos sell?

619 to 1k copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 619–1k; from 18 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 Cards of Chaos out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cards of Chaos's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 333k–5.8M

best case 20.6M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like Cards of Chaos

The middle of these games

≈ 333k–5.8M copies

≈ $1.7M–$89.2M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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 Simulation (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: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.7M–25.6M copies, ≈ $259.5M–$697.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 317 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and 4X (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.7M–25.6M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $259.5M–$697.7M after Steam's cut $471.8M–$1073.4M before the cut	$59.99	378k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Opus Magnum 2017	Est. copies ≈ 247k–401k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.6M before the cut	$19.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleProgramming
Sid Meier's Civilization® V 2010	Est. copies ≈ 13.3M–21.6M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $109.7M–$295.1M after Steam's cut $199.5M–$454.0M before the cut	$29.99	211k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Turn-Based StrategyStrategy
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.4M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $27.9M–$75.0M after Steam's cut $50.7M–$115.4M before the cut	$69.99	58k reviews Mixed	Grand StrategyHistorical
Drunken Wrestlers 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 540k–878k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $593k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut	$3.99	19k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessMultiplayer
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