How much revenue did RAGE 2 make?

$5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RAGE 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did RAGE 2 sell?

492k to 799k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 492k–799k; $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut $9.8M–$22.4M before Steam's cut; from 17k reviews (Mixed)

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 RAGE 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RAGE 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26.8M–44.5M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like RAGE 2

A typical game among these

≈ 26.8M–44.5M copies

≈ $210.5M–$808.5M after Steam's cut

from ~953k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Survival (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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