How much revenue did AI War 2 make?

$247k–$665k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AI War 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did AI War 2 sell?

45k to 73k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–73k; $247k–$665k after Steam's cut $450k–$1.0M before the cut; from 2k 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 AI War 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AI War 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–3.3M

best case 20.7M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like AI War 2

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–3.3M copies

≈ $28.4M–$47.7M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.8M–25.6M copies, ≈ $259.9M–$698.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (6 of 8) and Historical (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry 4X + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, 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 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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