How much revenue did Second Sight make?

$22k–$60k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Second Sight sell?

Q: How many copies did Second Sight sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 327 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $22k–$60k after Steam's cut $41k–$92k before Steam's cut; from 327 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 Second Sight and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Second Sight's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–5.7M

best case 22.4M (Tomb Raider Game of the Year)

Games like Second Sight

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–5.7M copies

≈ $25.3M–$47.2M after Steam's cut

from ~54k 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: Tomb Raider Game of the Year at ≈ 17.1M–27.8M copies, ≈ $94.0M–$252.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Third Person (7 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2022, 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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