How much revenue did Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone make?

$206k–$554k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone sell?

Q: How many copies did Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone sell?

19k to 30k copies, based on its 756 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–30k; $206k–$554k after Steam's cut $375k–$853k before the cut; from 756 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 Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 767k–1.3M

best case 4.5M (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl)

Games like Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone

The middle of these games

≈ 767k–1.3M copies

≈ $10.8M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $56.2M–$151.0M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 88k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Multiplayer + MMORPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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 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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