How much revenue did Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition make?

$10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition sell?

1.2M to 2.0M copies, based on its 50k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–2.0M; $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut $18.6M–$42.4M before the cut; from 50k 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 Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–844k

best case 3.6M (Dirty Bomb®)

Games like Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–844k copies

≈ $5k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Dirty Bomb® at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 174 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 884.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hero Shooter (5 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hero Shooter + FPS.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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