How much revenue did Sword and Fairy 2 make?

$55k–$148k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword and Fairy 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword and Fairy 2 sell?

33k to 54k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 33k–54k; $55k–$148k after Steam's cut $100k–$228k before the cut; from 1k 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 Sword and Fairy 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword and Fairy 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–319k

best case 2.0M (Gujian3(古剑奇谭三))

Games like Sword and Fairy 2

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–319k copies

≈ $153k–$6.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Best case: Gujian3(古剑奇谭三) at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 345 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Martial Arts (6 of 8) and JRPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Martial Arts, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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