How much revenue did Ghostrunner 2 make?

$3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ghostrunner 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Ghostrunner 2 sell?

288k to 468k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 288k–468k; $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 Ghostrunner 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ghostrunner 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 109k–127k

best case 540k (Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst)

Games like Ghostrunner 2

A typical game among these

≈ 109k–127k copies

≈ $490k–$550k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Parkour (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: Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst at ≈ 411k–668k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.1M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 279 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Parkour (4 of 8) and Runner (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + 1980s, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Racing + Casual + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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
Neon Boost 2019	Est. copies ≈ 71k–115k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayParkour
Ding Dong XL 2018	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut	$0.99	906 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RunnerDifficult
Neon Drive 2016	Est. copies ≈ 91k–148k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $250k–$672k after Steam's cut $454k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	1980sRetro
DeadCore 2014	Est. copies ≈ 114k–186k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $314k–$845k after Steam's cut $571k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerAction
DeathSprint 66 2024	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $82k–$220k after Steam's cut $149k–$338k before Steam's cut	$19.99	600 reviews Very Positive	PvPRunner
Retrowave 2022	Est. copies ≈ 383k–622k 7.3x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $315k–$846k after Steam's cut $572k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$2.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Racing1980s
404Sight 2015	Est. copies ≈ 87k–141k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionIndie
Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst 2020	Est. copies ≈ 411k–668k 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	17k reviews Mostly Positive	ParkourFemale Protagonist