How much revenue did No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle make?

$165k–$444k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle sell?

Q: How many copies did No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–49k; $165k–$444k after Steam's cut $300k–$683k before the cut; from 1k 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 No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 628k–2.1M

best case 1.9M (Chivalry 2)

Games like No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

The middle of these games

≈ 628k–2.1M copies

≈ $6.0M–$27.6M after Steam's cut

from ~32k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Chivalry 2 at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $16.0M–$42.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 371 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (8 of 8) and Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Swordplay + Medieval, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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).

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