How much revenue did Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition make?

$10.4M–$27.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition sell?

1.3M to 2.0M copies, based on its 51k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.0M; $10.4M–$27.9M after Steam's cut $18.9M–$42.9M before Steam's cut; from 51k 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 Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–845k

best case 3.6M (Dirty Bomb®)

Games like Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–845k copies

≈ $5k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Dirty Bomb® at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 174 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 883.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hero Shooter (5 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hero Shooter + FPS.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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