How much revenue did Dead Island 2 make?

$10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Island 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Island 2 sell?

730k to 1.2M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 730k–1.2M; $10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's cut $18.3M–$41.5M before the cut; from 29k reviews (Mostly 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 Dead Island 2 out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Island 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.1M–18.7M

best case 87.7M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Dead Island 2

The middle of these games

≈ 12.1M–18.7M copies

≈ $277.3M–$350.0M after Steam's cut

from ~233k reviews

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

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 66.8M–108.6M copies, ≈ $183.6M–$493.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 5) and Shooter (4 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2018, 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 38 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Very Positive	HuntingOpen World
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 11.4M–18.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $187.8M–$504.9M after Steam's cut $341.4M–$776.7M before the cut	$59.99	233k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerZombies
Left 4 Dead 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 66.8M–108.6M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $183.6M–$493.6M after Steam's cut $333.8M–$759.4M before the cut	$9.99	1.1M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesCo-op
DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.2M after Steam's cut $92.1M–$209.6M before the cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
DayZ 2018	Est. copies ≈ 14.2M–23.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $195.8M–$526.4M after Steam's cut $356.0M–$809.9M before the cut	$49.99	469k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalOpen World