How much revenue did Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency make?

$64k–$171k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency sell?

Q: How many copies did Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 536 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $64k–$171k after Steam's cut $116k–$263k before Steam's cut; from 536 reviews (Very 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 Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 85k–242k

best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency

A typical game among these

≈ 85k–242k copies

≈ $659k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut. 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 2 of the 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 70 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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