How much revenue did Orcs Must Die! 2 make?

$5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orcs Must Die! 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Orcs Must Die! 2 sell?

1.2M to 2.0M copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–2.0M; $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 Orcs Must Die! 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Orcs Must Die! 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.6M

best case 13.1M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Orcs Must Die! 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.6M copies

≈ $6.0M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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 Base-Building (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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.2M copies, ≈ $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (4 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $29.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 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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