How much revenue did Stronghold 2: Steam Edition make?

$819k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stronghold 2: Steam Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Stronghold 2: Steam Edition sell?

199k to 323k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 199k–323k; $819k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Stronghold 2: Steam Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stronghold 2: Steam Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 533k–957k

best case 1.2M (Against the Storm)

Games like Stronghold 2: Steam Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 533k–957k copies

≈ $3.3M–$9.0M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Against the Storm at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Medieval (7 of 8) and City Builder (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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