How much revenue did Supreme Commander 2 make?

$2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Supreme Commander 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Supreme Commander 2 sell?

821k to 1.3M copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 821k–1.3M; $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut; from 13k 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 Supreme Commander 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Supreme Commander 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.5M

best case 10.7M (Stellaris)

Games like Supreme Commander 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–1.5M copies

≈ $15.2M–$21.9M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (6 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Sandbox + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 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 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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