How much revenue did Drug Dealer Simulator 2 make?

$1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Drug Dealer Simulator 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Drug Dealer Simulator 2 sell?

147k to 238k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 147k–238k; $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.2M before the cut; from 6k 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 Drug Dealer Simulator 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drug Dealer Simulator 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 453k–1.0M

best case 10.2M (Schedule I)

Games like Drug Dealer Simulator 2

The middle of these games

≈ 453k–1.0M copies

≈ $4.4M–$8.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

Best case: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.9M–$115.2M 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 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crime (8 of 8) and Open World (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Management + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2002 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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Mafia 2002	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.6M before the cut	$14.99	16k reviews Very Positive	ActionStory Rich
Drug Dealer Simulator 2020	Est. copies ≈ 521k–847k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut $5.2M–$11.9M before the cut	$19.99	21k reviews Very Positive	SimulationCrime
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