How much revenue did Mad Games Tycoon 2 make?

$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mad Games Tycoon 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Mad Games Tycoon 2 sell?

193k to 314k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 193k–314k; $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut; from 8k 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 Mad Games Tycoon 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mad Games Tycoon 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 872k–1.5M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Mad Games Tycoon 2

The middle of these games

≈ 872k–1.5M copies

≈ $5.7M–$11.3M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Design & Illustration (4 of 8), 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 11k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Design & Illustration (4 of 8) and Game Development (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Mature + NSFW + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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