How much revenue did Dead Island 2 make?

$10.2M–$27.3M 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?

740k to 1.2M copies, based on its 30k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 740k–1.2M; $10.2M–$27.3M after Steam's cut $18.5M–$42.1M before Steam's cut; from 30k 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 Dead Island 2 and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Island 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.1M–18.7M

best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Dead Island 2

A typical game among these

≈ 12.1M–18.7M copies

≈ $278.1M–$351.6M after Steam's cut

from ~234k 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 5 of the similar games are hits.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (4 of 5) and Shooter (4 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games 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).

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theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	203k reviews Very Positive	HuntingOpen World
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Left 4 Dead 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 67.0M–108.9M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut $334.7M–$761.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.1M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesCo-op
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DayZ 2018	Est. copies ≈ 14.3M–23.2M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $196.4M–$527.9M after Steam's cut $357.0M–$812.2M before Steam's cut	$49.99	470k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalOpen World