How much revenue did Shadow Warrior 2 make?

$9.7M–$26.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadow Warrior 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadow Warrior 2 sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $9.7M–$26.1M after Steam's cut $17.6M–$40.1M before Steam's cut; from 28k 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 Shadow Warrior 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadow Warrior 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.0M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like Shadow Warrior 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies

≈ $12.7M–$36.4M after Steam's cut

from ~48k 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: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (5 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Looter Shooter + FPS, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry PvE + Class-Based; a typical game here doesn't.
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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