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 404k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248k–404k; $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Beholder 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beholder 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 169k–1.1M

best case 1.7M (Beholder)

Games like Beholder 2

A typical game among these

≈ 169k–1.1M copies

≈ $953k–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Beholder at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dystopian + Choices Matter, priced around $14.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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