How much revenue did House Flipper 2 make?

$5.5M–$14.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did House Flipper 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did House Flipper 2 sell?

504k to 820k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 504k–820k; $5.5M–$14.9M after Steam's cut $10.1M–$22.9M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 House Flipper 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including House Flipper 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–5.5M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like House Flipper 2

A typical game among these

≈ 3.0M–5.5M copies

≈ $22.6M–$59.1M after Steam's cut

from ~98k 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Farming Sim + Multiplayer + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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