How much revenue did Overcooked! 2 make?

$17.7M–$47.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Overcooked! 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Overcooked! 2 sell?

2.6M to 4.2M copies, based on its 85k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.6M–4.2M; $17.7M–$47.5M after Steam's cut $32.1M–$73.1M before Steam's cut; from 85k 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 Overcooked! 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Overcooked! 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14.3M–37.6M

best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Overcooked! 2

A typical game among these

≈ 14.3M–37.6M copies

≈ $111.0M–$149.6M after Steam's cut

from ~468k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 67.0M–108.9M copies, ≈ $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 103k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2021, 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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