How much revenue did Swords and Sandals 2 Redux make?

$55k–$148k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Swords and Sandals 2 Redux sell?

Q: How many copies did Swords and Sandals 2 Redux sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 584 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $55k–$148k after Steam's cut $100k–$228k before Steam's cut; from 584 reviews (Mostly 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 Swords and Sandals 2 Redux and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swords and Sandals 2 Redux's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98k–311k

best case 512k (Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition)

Games like Swords and Sandals 2 Redux

A typical game among these

≈ 98k–311k copies

≈ $594k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition at ≈ 390k–634k copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 693 reviews in their first month; the range was 491 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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 38 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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