How much revenue did BRAVELY DEFAULT II make?

$843k–$2.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BRAVELY DEFAULT II sell?

Q: How many copies did BRAVELY DEFAULT II sell?

51k to 83k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 51k–83k; $843k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before the cut; from 2k 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 BRAVELY DEFAULT II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BRAVELY DEFAULT II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–3.3M

best case 9.0M (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)

Games like BRAVELY DEFAULT II

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–3.3M copies

≈ $13.5M–$54.4M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 at ≈ 6.9M–11.1M copies, ≈ $94.2M–$253.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 92k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Story Rich, priced around $50.
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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