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How many copies did Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 134k–218k
$1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before Steam's cut
from 5k 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 Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–243k
best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)
Games like Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2

A typical game among these

≈ 14k–243k copies

≈ $63k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M 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 8 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 40k.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Robots (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Multiplayer + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Phasmophobia
2020
Est. copies
≈ 20.9M–33.9M
698x vs typical
SteamSpy 10M–20M
Est. revenue
$114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut $208.6M–$474.7M before Steam's cut
$19.99
842k reviews
Very Positive
HorrorOnline Co-Op
A Night With Gigsjaw VR
2022
Est. copies
≈ 198–322
too small to compare
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
Free
Free
8 reviews
8 user reviews
Budget Cuts
2018
Est. copies
≈ 57k–93k
1.6x vs typical
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$235k–$632k after Steam's cut $427k–$972k before Steam's cut
$14.99
2k reviews
Very Positive
ActionAdventure
Job Simulator
2016
Est. copies
≈ 228k–370k
4.5x vs typical
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before Steam's cut
$19.99
5k reviews
Very Positive
Budget Cuts Ultimate
2023
Est. copies
≈ 3k–5k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before Steam's cut
$19.99
117 reviews
Very Positive
ActionAdventure
Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency
2019
Est. copies
≈ 15k–25k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$64k–$171k after Steam's cut $116k–$263k before Steam's cut
$14.99
536 reviews
Very Positive
AdventureAction
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
2019
Est. copies
≈ 379k–616k
11x vs typical
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before Steam's cut
$29.99
13k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
HorrorVR
Aeon
2017
Est. copies
≈ 9k–15k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$25k–$66k after Steam's cut $45k–$102k before Steam's cut
$9.99
260 reviews
Mostly Positive
FPSAction

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