How much revenue did Hard West 2 make?

$657k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hard West 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Hard West 2 sell?

80k to 129k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–129k; $657k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut; from 3k 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 Hard West 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hard West 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 944–10k

best case 316k (Hard West)

Games like Hard West 2

The middle of these games

≈ 944–10k copies

≈ $2k–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~57 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hard West at ≈ 240k–391k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 53.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Western (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Western + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 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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