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How many copies did Rising Storm 2: Vietnam sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.0M–3.3M
$14.0M–$37.7M after Steam's cut $25.5M–$58.0M before Steam's cut
from 59k 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 Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rising Storm 2: Vietnam's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.6M
best case 7.9M (Squad)
Games like Rising Storm 2: Vietnam

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.6M copies

≈ $25.4M–$49.4M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Squad at ≈ 6.0M–9.8M copies, ≈ $66.5M–$178.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 57k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share FPS (7 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Military + Realistic, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2024, 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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