How much revenue did Sugar Tanks 2 make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sugar Tanks 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Sugar Tanks 2 sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 21 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 Sugar Tanks 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sugar Tanks 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.1M

best case 10.6M (Battlefield™ 2042)

Games like Sugar Tanks 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.1M copies

≈ $12.5M–$13.3M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Battlefield™ 2042 at ≈ 8.1M–13.1M copies, ≈ $133.3M–$358.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 89k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2023, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $27.3M–$73.4M after Steam's cut $49.7M–$113.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	100k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerShooter
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Very Positive	FPSMultiplayer
Borderlands 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 19.8M–32.1M 8.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $217.3M–$584.2M after Steam's cut $395.1M–$898.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	313k reviews Very Positive	LootShooter
Armored Battalion 2023	Est. copies ≈ 149–242 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $369–$990 after Steam's cut $670–$2k before Steam's cut	$8.99	6 reviews 6 user reviews	TanksWorld War II
Battlefield™ 2042 2021	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.1M 8.9x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $133.3M–$358.3M after Steam's cut $242.3M–$551.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	326k reviews Mixed	FPSMultiplayer
Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 906k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$30.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	37k reviews Mostly Positive	Looter ShooterOpen World
Tom Clancy’s The Division™ 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.6M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $33.2M–$89.4M after Steam's cut $60.5M–$137.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	97k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldLooter Shooter
Borderlands Game of the Year 2023	Est. copies ≈ 791k–1.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.5M–$17.5M after Steam's cut $11.9M–$27.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	32k reviews Very Positive	Looter ShooterFPS