How much revenue did Dealer's Life make?

$105k–$283k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dealer's Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Dealer's Life sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–62k; $105k–$283k after Steam's cut $191k–$435k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Very 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 Dealer's Life out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dealer's Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–829k

best case 1.6M (TCG Card Shop Simulator)

Games like Dealer's Life

The middle of these games

≈ 47k–829k copies

≈ $198k–$6.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: TCG Card Shop Simulator at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.7M–$18.1M 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 73 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (5 of 8) and Capitalism (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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