How much revenue did Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II make?

$405k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II sell?

Q: How many copies did Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II sell?

147k to 239k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 147k–239k; $405k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $736k–$1.7M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–11.3M

best case 15.2M (Fall Guys)

Games like Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II

A typical game among these

≈ 4.1M–11.3M copies

≈ $26.8M–$108.0M after Steam's cut

from ~174k 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: Fall Guys at ≈ 11.6M–18.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 41k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (6 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Battle Royale.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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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