How many copies did Destiny 2 sell?

19.0M to 30.9M copies, based on its 661k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Destiny 2 make?

Destiny 2 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Destiny 2?

Estimated owners: ≈ 19.0M–30.9M; from 661k 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 Destiny 2 out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Destiny 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23.6M–52.5M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Destiny 2

The middle of these games

≈ 23.6M–52.5M copies

≈ $95.0M–$257.5M after Steam's cut

from ~776k reviews

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

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (3 of 7), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (3 of 7) and Survival (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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 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
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.3M–33.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut $253.8M–$577.4M before the cut	$24.99	416k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.3M–80.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	780k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.7M–43.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut $200.2M–$455.4M before the cut	$14.99	776k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Hearts of Iron IV 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.6M–25.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $214.5M–$576.7M after Steam's cut $390.0M–$887.2M before the cut	$49.99	375k reviews Very Positive	StrategyWorld War II
Raft 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.2M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.5M–$138.4M after Steam's cut $93.6M–$213.0M before the cut	$19.99	378k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities