How much revenue did I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar make?

$223k–$598k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar sell?

Q: How many copies did I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar sell?

32k to 53k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–53k; $223k–$598k after Steam's cut $405k–$921k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.0M

best case 5.8M (Resident Evil 7 Biohazard)

Games like I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–2.0M copies

≈ $4.3M–$15.8M after Steam's cut

from ~45k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (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: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies, ≈ $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Horror + Survival Horror + Sexual Content; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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