How much revenue did The Walking Dead: Season Two make?

$8.8M–$23.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Walking Dead: Season Two sell?

Q: How many copies did The Walking Dead: Season Two sell?

2.1M to 3.5M copies, based on its 34k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.1M–3.5M; $8.8M–$23.8M after Steam's cut $16.1M–$36.6M before the cut; from 34k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Walking Dead: Season Two out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including The Walking Dead: Season Two's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25.2M–29.4M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like The Walking Dead: Season Two

The middle of these games

≈ 25.2M–29.4M copies

≈ $149.6M–$258.0M after Steam's cut

from ~495k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (2 of 3) and Horror (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2018, 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 38 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Half-Life 2 2004	Est. copies ≈ 17.6M–28.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $48.5M–$130.3M after Steam's cut $88.1M–$200.5M before the cut	$9.99	279k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction
Dying Light 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24.2M–39.2M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $166.0M–$446.3M after Steam's cut $301.8M–$686.6M before the cut	$24.99	495k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival