How much revenue did Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency make?

$63k–$170k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency sell?

Q: How many copies did Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 534 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $63k–$170k after Steam's cut $115k–$262k before the cut; from 534 reviews (Very 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 Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 85k–241k

best case 5.3M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency

The middle of these games

≈ 85k–241k copies

≈ $657k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.0M–6.6M copies, ≈ $11.1M–$29.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 70 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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