How much revenue did Overlord II make?

$867k–$2.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Overlord II sell?

Q: How many copies did Overlord II sell?

315k to 513k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 315k–513k; $867k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Overlord II and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Overlord II's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90k–342k

best case 734k (Tyranny)

Games like Overlord II

A typical game among these

≈ 90k–342k copies

≈ $297k–$1.8M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tyranny at ≈ 560k–909k copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Villain Protagonist (7 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2021, 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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