How much revenue did BioShock™ 2 Remastered make?

$6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BioShock™ 2 Remastered sell?

Q: How many copies did BioShock™ 2 Remastered sell?

1.3M to 2.0M copies, based on its 30k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.0M; $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before the cut; from 30k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left BioShock™ 2 Remastered out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including BioShock™ 2 Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38.3M–66.8M

best case 99.2M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like BioShock™ 2 Remastered

The middle of these games

≈ 38.3M–66.8M copies

≈ $147.0M–$477.2M after Steam's cut

from ~997k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 75.6M–122.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (3 of 4) and Animation & Modeling (1 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2020, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75.6M–122.8M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.3M–39.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $400.4M–$1076.6M after Steam's cut $728.1M–$1656.3M before the cut	$59.99	979k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.9M–50.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut $77.0M–$175.1M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.6M–69.3M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $117.1M–$314.8M after Steam's cut $212.9M–$484.4M before the cut	$9.99	674k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction