How much revenue did Knights of Pen and Paper 2 make?

$310k–$834k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Knights of Pen and Paper 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Knights of Pen and Paper 2 sell?

141k to 229k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 141k–229k; $310k–$834k after Steam's cut $564k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Knights of Pen and Paper 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knights of Pen and Paper 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–13.8M

best case 28.0M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Knights of Pen and Paper 2

A typical game among these

≈ 2.6M–13.8M copies

≈ $42.4M–$186.2M after Steam's cut

from ~110k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Story Rich (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: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.3M–34.6M copies, ≈ $351.5M–$945.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (4 of 8) and Turn-Based (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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