How much revenue did Magic Research 2 make?

$25k–$68k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Magic Research 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Magic Research 2 sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 617 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $25k–$68k after Steam's cut $46k–$104k before Steam's cut; from 617 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 Magic Research 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magic Research 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–20k

best case 89k (Your Chronicle)

Games like Magic Research 2

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–20k copies

≈ $1k–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~263 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Your Chronicle at ≈ 68k–110k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 70 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 417.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Auto Battler (8 of 8) and Idler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Text-Based.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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