How much revenue did I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar make?

$222k–$598k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar sell?

Q: How many copies did I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar sell?

32k to 53k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–53k; $222k–$598k after Steam's cut $404k–$920k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.0M

best case 5.7M (Resident Evil 7 Biohazard)

Games like I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–2.0M copies

≈ $4.3M–$15.8M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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 Co-op (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: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard at ≈ 4.3M–7.1M copies, ≈ $23.9M–$64.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 392 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Horror + Survival Horror + Sexual Content; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 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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