How much revenue did Risk of Rain 2 make?

$60.1M–$161.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Risk of Rain 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Risk of Rain 2 sell?

8.7M to 14.2M copies, based on its 352k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8.7M–14.2M; $60.1M–$161.5M after Steam's cut $109.2M–$248.5M before the cut; from 352k 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 Risk of Rain 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Risk of Rain 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–204k

best case 1.0M (Crab Champions)

Games like Risk of Rain 2

The middle of these games

≈ 44k–204k copies

≈ $177k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crab Champions at ≈ 772k–1.3M copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 275 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Soundtrack, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 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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