How much revenue did The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution make?

$128k–$343k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution sell?

Q: How many copies did The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution sell?

46k to 75k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 46k–75k; $128k–$343k after Steam's cut $232k–$528k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mixed)

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 Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 170k–374k

best case 9.1M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution

A typical game among these

≈ 170k–374k copies

≈ $1.7M–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.4M–$205.5M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 619 to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Zombies (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Survival Horror + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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