How much revenue did Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ make?

$524k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ sell?

191k to 310k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 191k–310k; $524k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $953k–$2.2M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 260k–545k

best case 1.2M (Deponia)

Games like Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™

A typical game among these

≈ 260k–545k copies

≈ $2.0M–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: Deponia at ≈ 930k–1.5M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (8 of 8) and Point & Click (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Comedy, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2016, 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 52 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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