How much revenue did THE GAME OF LIFE 2 make?

$396k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did THE GAME OF LIFE 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did THE GAME OF LIFE 2 sell?

115k to 187k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 115k–187k; $396k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $719k–$1.6M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 THE GAME OF LIFE 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including THE GAME OF LIFE 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–3k

best case 18k (Exploding Kittens® 2)

Games like THE GAME OF LIFE 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–3k copies

≈ $1k–$12k after Steam's cut

from ~55 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Exploding Kittens® 2 at ≈ 13k–22k copies, ≈ $46k–$124k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 18 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 123.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (8 of 8) and Party (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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