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How big is EverQuest II?

Estimated owners
≈ 185k–301k
from 3k 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 EverQuest II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EverQuest II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 960k–5.1M
best case 9.7M (New World: Aeternum)
Games like EverQuest II

The middle of these games

≈ 960k–5.1M copies

≈ $11.7M–$32.5M after Steam's cut

from ~85k 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: New World: Aeternum at ≈ 7.4M–12.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 145k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on MMORPG (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + MMORPG. The breakout hits carry PvE + Action + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2022, 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 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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3.5x vs typical
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Trove
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RIFT
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Albion Online
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Mortal Online 2
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