How much revenue did Anomaly 2 make?

$279k–$750k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Anomaly 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Anomaly 2 sell?

68k to 110k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 68k–110k; $279k–$750k after Steam's cut $507k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Anomaly 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anomaly 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 186k–390k

best case 392k (Starship Troopers: Terran Command)

Games like Anomaly 2

A typical game among these

≈ 186k–390k copies

≈ $903k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Starship Troopers: Terran Command at ≈ 299k–486k copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (8 of 8) and RTS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Military, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2022, 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 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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