How much revenue did Soul Hackers 2 make?

$1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Soul Hackers 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Soul Hackers 2 sell?

82k to 133k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 82k–133k; $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.6M before the cut; from 3k 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 Soul Hackers 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Soul Hackers 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–3.3M

best case 9.0M (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)

Games like Soul Hackers 2

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–3.3M copies

≈ $20.6M–$61.5M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 at ≈ 6.9M–11.1M copies, ≈ $94.2M–$253.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9k to 92k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Story Rich, priced around $50.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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