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How many copies did DOOM II sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 572k–930k
from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left DOOM II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOOM II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.5M–20.8M
best case 20.5M (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition)
Games like DOOM II

The middle of these games

≈ 9.5M–20.8M copies

≈ $87.8M–$135.2M after Steam's cut

from ~241k 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: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition at ≈ 15.6M–25.4M copies, ≈ $172.0M–$462.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on First-Person (5 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2000 to 2019, 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 36 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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