How much revenue did Difficult times 2 make?

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

How many copies did Difficult times 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Difficult times 2 sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (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 Difficult times 2 and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Difficult times 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–89k

best case 94k (City Bus Manager)

Games like Difficult times 2

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–89k copies

≈ $8k–$830k after Steam's cut

from ~933 reviews

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

3 of the 7 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arena Shooter (3 of 7), 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: City Bus Manager at ≈ 71k–116k copies, ≈ $588k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 119 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arena Shooter (3 of 7) and Logic (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 2 of the 7 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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