How much revenue did Beyond the Ice Palace 2 make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Beyond the Ice Palace 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Beyond the Ice Palace 2 sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 132 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $33k–$74k before Steam's cut; from 132 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 Beyond the Ice Palace 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beyond the Ice Palace 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–4.6M

best case 24.1M (DARK SOULS™ III)

Games like Beyond the Ice Palace 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–4.6M copies

≈ $5.8M–$20.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DARK SOULS™ III at ≈ 18.3M–29.8M copies, ≈ $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 70 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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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Salt and Sanctuary 2016	Est. copies ≈ 915k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.2M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before Steam's cut	$17.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Souls-like Metroidvania
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