How much revenue did Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 65 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 65 reviews (Mostly 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 of the Stars: The Pit 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–116k

best case 530k (Deadzone: Rogue)

Games like Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2

The middle of these games

≈ 36k–116k copies

≈ $318k–$668k 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deadzone: Rogue at ≈ 404k–656k copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.5M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 359 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + PvE + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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