How much revenue did Risk of Rain 2 make?

$60.2M–$161.9M 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?

8.8M to 14.2M copies, based on its 353k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8.8M–14.2M; $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut $109.5M–$249.0M before Steam's cut; from 353k 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 Risk of Rain 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Risk of Rain 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45k–206k

best case 1.0M (Crab Champions)

Games like Risk of Rain 2

A typical game among these

≈ 45k–206k copies

≈ $177k–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crab Champions at ≈ 774k–1.3M copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Soundtrack, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of the 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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Crab Champions 2023	Est. copies ≈ 774k–1.3M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	31k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessAction Roguelike
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