How much revenue did Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition make?

$87.8M–$236.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition sell?

7.1M to 11.5M copies, based on its 206k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7.1M–11.5M; $87.8M–$236.1M after Steam's cut $159.6M–$363.2M before Steam's cut; from 206k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 923k–1.4M

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 923k–1.4M copies

≈ $9.8M–$17.2M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Combat (5 of 8) and Character Customization (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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