How many copies did Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards sell?

144k to 234k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards make?

Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards?

Estimated owners: ≈ 144k–234k; from 4k 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 Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–331k

best case 2.0M (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links)

Games like Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–331k copies

≈ $401–$391k after Steam's cut

from ~381 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 92 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (7 of 8) and Trading Card Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Anime.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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