How much revenue did White Noise 2 make?

$270k–$726k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did White Noise 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did White Noise 2 sell?

98k to 160k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 98k–160k; $270k–$726k after Steam's cut $491k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 White Noise 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including White Noise 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 712k–7.9M

best case 51.1M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like White Noise 2

A typical game among these

≈ 712k–7.9M copies

≈ $4.1M–$92.0M after Steam's cut

from ~50k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 39.0M–63.3M copies, ≈ $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Survival Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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