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How many copies did Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–7k
$31k–$82k after Steam's cut $56k–$127k before Steam's cut
from 180 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 Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 567k–859k
best case 1.6M (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader)
Games like Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out

A typical game among these

≈ 567k–859k copies

≈ $5.6M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut.

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 5k to 15k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Character Customization (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Character Customization + Cinematic, priced around $50.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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2.4x vs typical
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