How much revenue did Portal 2 - The Final Hours make?

$29k–$79k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Portal 2 - The Final Hours sell?

Q: How many copies did Portal 2 - The Final Hours sell?

54k to 87k copies, based on its 851 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 54k–87k; $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $54k–$122k before Steam's cut; from 851 reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 Portal 2 - The Final Hours and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Portal 2 - The Final Hours's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–6.6M

best case 57.5M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered)

Games like Portal 2 - The Final Hours

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–6.6M copies

≈ $183k–$65.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered at ≈ 43.8M–71.2M copies, ≈ $602.5M–$1620.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 35 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 202.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Documentary (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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