How much revenue did The Underground Man 2 make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Underground Man 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Underground Man 2 sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 145 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut; from 145 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 The Underground Man 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Underground Man 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–144k

best case 235k (Dungeon Munchies)

Games like The Underground Man 2

The middle of these games

≈ 24k–144k copies

≈ $247k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Post-apocalyptic (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: Dungeon Munchies at ≈ 179k–291k copies, ≈ $983k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 660 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 77 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Post-apocalyptic (4 of 8) and Metroidvania (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 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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