How much revenue did Red Dead Redemption 2 make?

$435.5M–$1170.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Red Dead Redemption 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Red Dead Redemption 2 sell?

26.4M to 42.9M copies, based on its 917k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26.4M–42.9M; $435.5M–$1170.8M after Steam's cut $791.7M–$1801.2M before the cut; from 917k 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 Red Dead Redemption 2 out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Dead Redemption 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 563k–3.0M

best case 21.7M (Fallout: New Vegas)

Games like Red Dead Redemption 2

The middle of these games

≈ 563k–3.0M copies

≈ $2.3M–$19.4M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Fallout: New Vegas at ≈ 16.5M–26.8M copies, ≈ $45.3M–$121.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Western (6 of 7) and Open World (4 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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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Fallout: New Vegas 2010	Est. copies ≈ 16.5M–26.8M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $45.3M–$121.9M after Steam's cut $82.5M–$187.6M before the cut	$9.99	261k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldRPG
Red Dead Redemption 2024	Est. copies ≈ 532k–865k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $7.3M–$19.7M after Steam's cut $13.3M–$30.3M before the cut	$49.99	21k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldWestern
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