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How many copies did Beyond: Two Souls sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1.1M–1.8M
$6.0M–$16.0M after Steam's cut $10.9M–$24.7M before Steam's cut
from 44k 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 Beyond: Two Souls and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beyond: Two Souls's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–8.8M
best case 8.6M (Detroit: Become Human)
Games like Beyond: Two Souls

A typical game among these

≈ 2.7M–8.8M copies

≈ $23.1M–$154.7M after Steam's cut

from ~132k 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: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $72.1M–$193.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 8k to 27k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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