How much revenue did Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition make?

$3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition sell?

693k to 1.1M copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 693k–1.1M; $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.8M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27.6M–35.7M

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 27.6M–35.7M copies

≈ $432.6M–$828.3M after Steam's cut

from ~859k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 297k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
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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Black Myth: Wukong 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30.1M–48.9M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut $902.2M–$2052.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MythologyAction RPG
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