How much revenue did PaintBall War 2 make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PaintBall War 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did PaintBall War 2 sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 114 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 114 reviews (Mixed)

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 PaintBall War 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PaintBall War 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–2.8M

best case 9.1M (theHunter: Call of the Wild™)

Games like PaintBall War 2

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–2.8M copies

≈ $21.2M–$21.6M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: theHunter: Call of the Wild™ at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Sports; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, 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 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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