How much revenue did The Evil Within 2 make?

$11.7M–$31.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Evil Within 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Evil Within 2 sell?

1.1M to 1.7M copies, based on its 31k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.7M; $11.7M–$31.6M after Steam's cut $21.4M–$48.6M before Steam's cut; from 31k 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 The Evil Within 2 and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including The Evil Within 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.2M–21.9M

best case 51.1M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like The Evil Within 2

A typical game among these

≈ 8.2M–21.9M copies

≈ $78.7M–$268.0M after Steam's cut

from ~275k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 39.0M–63.3M copies, ≈ $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (3 of 4) and Survival Horror (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of the 4 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 52 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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