How much revenue did LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 make?

$171k–$460k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 sell?

62k to 101k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 62k–101k; $171k–$460k after Steam's cut $311k–$707k 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 LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LIZARDS MUST DIE 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 125k–914k

best case 1.2M (Hi-Fi RUSH)

Games like LIZARDS MUST DIE 2

A typical game among these

≈ 125k–914k copies

≈ $986k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: Hi-Fi RUSH at ≈ 893k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 292 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (8 of 8) and Third Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, 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 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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Hi-Fi RUSH 2023	Est. copies ≈ 893k–1.5M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	36k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RhythmAction
Blades of Time 2012	Est. copies ≈ 172k–280k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $473k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $860k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionFemale Protagonist
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