How much revenue did Sword and Fairy 2 make?

$55k–$149k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword and Fairy 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword and Fairy 2 sell?

34k to 55k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–55k; $55k–$149k after Steam's cut $101k–$229k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Sword and Fairy 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword and Fairy 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–323k

best case 2.0M (Gujian3(古剑奇谭三))

Games like Sword and Fairy 2

A typical game among these

≈ 31k–323k copies

≈ $154k–$6.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Best case: Gujian3(古剑奇谭三) at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 345 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Martial Arts (6 of 8) and JRPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Martial Arts, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 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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