How much revenue did Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$90k before Steam's cut; from 160 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 104k–139k

best case 144k (Eldest Souls)

Games like Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2

A typical game among these

≈ 104k–139k copies

≈ $710k–$981k 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.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Eldest Souls at ≈ 110k–179k copies, ≈ $605k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 152 reviews in their first month; the range was 35 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Eldest Souls 2021	Est. copies ≈ 110k–179k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $605k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Pixel GraphicsSouls-like
10 Minutes Till Dawn 2022	Est. copies ≈ 102k–166k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Shoot 'Em UpAction Roguelike
Madshot 2023	Est. copies ≈ 7k–12k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $39k–$105k after Steam's cut $71k–$161k before Steam's cut	$19.99	286 reviews Very Positive	PlatformerLovecraftian
Sea of Survivors 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before Steam's cut	$6.99	418 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction Roguelike
HellSign 2021	Est. copies ≈ 57k–92k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $312k–$838k after Steam's cut $566k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mixed	SupernaturalHorror
Lost in Dungeon / 地牢迷失者 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$4.99	69 reviews Mixed	Early AccessAction
Nevermore: The Chamber Door 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut	$7.99	58 reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeHack and Slash
Hollow Survivors 2025	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before Steam's cut	$9.99	201 reviews Very Positive	Bullet Hell Rogue-lite