How much revenue did Natural Selection 2 make?

$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Natural Selection 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Natural Selection 2 sell?

845k to 1.4M copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 845k–1.4M; $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut; from 13k reviews (Very 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 Natural Selection 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Natural Selection 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32.3M–105.5M

best case 816.1M (Counter-Strike 2)

Games like Natural Selection 2

The middle of these games

≈ 32.3M–105.5M copies

≈ $135.8M–$218.6M after Steam's cut

from ~727k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 621.8M–1010.5M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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Counter-Strike 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 621.8M–1010.5M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	9.8M reviews Very Positive	FPSShooter
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.3M–80.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	780k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
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
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–47.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut $147.2M–$334.8M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Raft 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.6M–$138.7M after Steam's cut $93.8M–$213.4M before the cut	$19.99	378k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.7M–153.9M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75.6M–122.8M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
7 Days to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut $223.1M–$507.7M before the cut	$44.99	400k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies