How much revenue did The Underground Man 2 make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Underground Man 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Underground Man 2 sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 144 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 144 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 The Underground Man 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Underground Man 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–158k

best case 235k (Dungeon Munchies)

Games like The Underground Man 2

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–158k copies

≈ $248k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Post-apocalyptic (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Dungeon Munchies at ≈ 179k–291k copies, ≈ $985k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 660 reviews in their first month; the range was 77 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Post-apocalyptic (4 of 8) and Metroidvania (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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