How much revenue did Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend make?

$120k–$322k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend sell?

Q: How many copies did Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend sell?

29k to 47k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–47k; $120k–$322k after Steam's cut $217k–$495k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 473k–1.0M

best case 56.3M (Warframe)

Games like Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend

A typical game among these

≈ 473k–1.0M copies

≈ $6.5M–$11.7M after Steam's cut

from ~23k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Warframe at ≈ 42.9M–69.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 29k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (6 of 8) and Loot (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Looter Shooter, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Looter Shooter + Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, and none of them 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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Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.9M–69.7M 29x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	678k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
Borderlands 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 19.8M–32.1M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $217.3M–$584.2M after Steam's cut $395.1M–$898.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	313k reviews Very Positive	LootShooter
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.7M–$71.7M after Steam's cut $48.5M–$110.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	43k reviews Mostly Positive	Looter ShooterCo-op
Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator 2023	Est. copies ≈ 464k–755k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	19k reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureDriving
Alien Shooter 2009	Est. copies ≈ 302k–490k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $414k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $752k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ShooterAction
Borderlands Game of the Year 2023	Est. copies ≈ 791k–1.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.5M–$17.5M after Steam's cut $11.9M–$27.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	32k reviews Very Positive	Looter ShooterFPS
EVERSPACE™ 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 326k–529k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.0M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ShooterSpace
Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced 2023	Est. copies ≈ 693k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.7M–$15.4M after Steam's cut $10.4M–$23.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	28k reviews Very Positive	FPS Co-op