How much revenue did Beholder 2 make?

$1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Beholder 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Beholder 2 sell?

248k to 402k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248k–402k; $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before the cut; from 8k 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 Beholder 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beholder 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 130k–175k

best case 1.7M (Beholder)

Games like Beholder 2

The middle of these games

≈ 130k–175k copies

≈ $857k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Beholder at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 705 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Political Sim, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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