How much revenue did Garten of Banban 2 make?

$155k–$418k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Garten of Banban 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Garten of Banban 2 sell?

113k to 184k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 113k–184k; $155k–$418k after Steam's cut $282k–$642k before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Garten of Banban 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Garten of Banban 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.4M

best case 4.6M (Poppy Playtime)

Games like Garten of Banban 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.4M copies

≈ $11.7M–$22.9M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Poppy Playtime at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $11.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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