How much revenue did Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne make?

$2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne sell?

Q: How many copies did Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne sell?

933k to 1.5M copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 933k–1.5M; $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.6M before Steam's cut; from 15k 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 Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–3.5M

best case 3.6M (Mafia: Definitive Edition)

Games like Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–3.5M copies

≈ $9.5M–$36.9M after Steam's cut

from ~38k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mafia: Definitive Edition at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies, ≈ $30.4M–$81.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 130 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2020, 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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Mafia: Definitive Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $30.4M–$81.7M after Steam's cut $55.2M–$125.7M before Steam's cut	$39.99	111k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldCrime
Max Payne 2011	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	ActionNoir
DARK 2013	Est. copies ≈ 89k–144k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $243k–$654k after Steam's cut $443k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Mixed	StealthAction
Mafia II: Definitive Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 967k–1.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $8.0M–$21.4M after Steam's cut $14.5M–$33.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	39k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionAdventure
Max Payne 3 2012	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.4M–$60.2M after Steam's cut $40.7M–$92.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	64k reviews Very Positive	ActionThird-Person Shooter
LIBERATED 2020	Est. copies ≈ 22k–35k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $119k–$320k after Steam's cut $216k–$492k before Steam's cut	$19.99	872 reviews Mostly Positive	ConspiracyComic Book
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified 2013	Est. copies ≈ 764k–1.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionTactical
L.A. Noire 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.8M–$34.5M after Steam's cut $23.4M–$53.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	37k reviews Very Positive	DetectiveCrime