How many copies did EverQuest II sell?

187k to 304k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did EverQuest II make?

EverQuest II is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is EverQuest II?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 187k–304k; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 EverQuest II and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EverQuest II's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 968k–5.1M

best case 9.7M (New World: Aeternum)

Games like EverQuest II

A typical game among these

≈ 968k–5.1M copies

≈ $11.7M–$32.6M after Steam's cut

from ~86k 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.

Best case: New World: Aeternum at ≈ 7.4M–12.0M copies. 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 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 145k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MMORPG (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + MMORPG. The breakout hits carry PvE + Action + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2022, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
New World: Aeternum 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.4M–12.0M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	297k reviews Mixed	Open WorldMassively Multiplayer
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.8M–7.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.4M–$71.0M after Steam's cut $48.0M–$109.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	86k reviews Very Positive	MMORPGRPG
Black Desert 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	94k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGMassively Multiplayer
Trove 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	93k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World
RIFT 2011	Est. copies ≈ 736k–1.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMMORPG
Albion Online 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	94k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMMORPG
Mortal Online 2 2022	Est. copies ≈ 345k–561k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.7M before Steam's cut	$39.99	14k reviews Mixed	MMORPGSandbox
Guild Wars 2® 2022	Est. copies ≈ 739k–1.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	30k reviews Very Positive	MMORPGAdventure