How much revenue did No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle make?

$169k–$453k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle sell?

Q: How many copies did No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle sell?

31k to 50k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–50k; $169k–$453k after Steam's cut $306k–$697k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 631k–2.1M

best case 1.9M (Chivalry 2)

Games like No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

A typical game among these

≈ 631k–2.1M copies

≈ $6.0M–$27.8M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: Chivalry 2 at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $16.2M–$43.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 370 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (8 of 8) and Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Swordplay + Medieval, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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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Hi-Fi RUSH 2023	Est. copies ≈ 893k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	36k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RhythmAction
Bayonetta 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	33k reviews Very Positive	ActionFemale Protagonist
DmC: Devil May Cry 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $17.3M–$46.4M after Steam's cut $31.4M–$71.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Very Positive	ActionHack and Slash
Shadow Warrior 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.9M–$37.5M after Steam's cut $25.4M–$57.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	27k reviews Very Positive	ActionFPS
Chivalry 2 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.2M–$43.4M after Steam's cut $29.4M–$66.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	59k reviews Mostly Positive	SwordplayMedieval
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