How much revenue did BioShock™ 2 Remastered make?

$6.9M–$18.7M 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 2.1M copies, based on its 30k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.1M; $6.9M–$18.7M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.7M before Steam's cut; from 30k reviews (Mostly 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 BioShock™ 2 Remastered and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including BioShock™ 2 Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38.5M–66.9M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like BioShock™ 2 Remastered

A typical game among these

≈ 38.5M–66.9M copies

≈ $147.3M–$478.8M after Steam's cut

from ~1.0M 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (3 of 4) and Animation & Modeling (1 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games 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 ≈ 76.0M–123.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.6M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.4M–39.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut $730.9M–$1662.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	983k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $117.2M–$315.1M after Steam's cut $213.1M–$484.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	675k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction