How much revenue did Hello Neighbor 2 make?

$1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hello Neighbor 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Hello Neighbor 2 sell?

144k to 235k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 144k–235k; $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.6M before the cut; from 6k 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 Hello Neighbor 2 out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Hello Neighbor 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.6M–9.4M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like Hello Neighbor 2

The middle of these games

≈ 5.6M–9.4M copies

≈ $60.4M–$103.9M after Steam's cut

from ~199k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Horror (2 of 4), 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: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (2 of 4) and Puzzle (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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Stray 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.3M–$97.6M after Steam's cut $66.0M–$150.1M before the cut	$29.99	177k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsAdventure
Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut $94.2M–$214.2M before the cut	$19.99	226k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.1M before the cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Resident Evil 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $70.1M–$188.4M after Steam's cut $127.4M–$289.8M before the cut	$39.99	221k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror