How much revenue did Magicka 2 make?

$2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Magicka 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Magicka 2 sell?

683k to 1.1M copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 683k–1.1M; $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.6M before Steam's cut; from 14k 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 Magicka 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magicka 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–649k

best case 2.7M (Magicka)

Games like Magicka 2

A typical game among these

≈ 41k–649k copies

≈ $159k–$3.8M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Magicka at ≈ 2.1M–3.3M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (5 of 8) and Comedy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Co-op, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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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