How much revenue did Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire make?

$3.4M–$9.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire sell?

Q: How many copies did Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire sell?

611k to 993k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 611k–993k; $3.4M–$9.0M after Steam's cut $6.1M–$13.9M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–1.7M

best case 28.0M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–1.7M copies

≈ $10.9M–$27.7M after Steam's cut

from ~34k 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: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.3M–34.6M copies, ≈ $351.5M–$945.2M 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 6k to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Character Customization (5 of 8) and CRPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Story Rich, priced around $52. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Character Customization + CRPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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