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How many copies did Beyond the Ice Palace 2 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–5k
$18k–$48k after Steam's cut $32k–$74k before the cut
from 131 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 Beyond the Ice Palace 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beyond the Ice Palace 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 996k–4.5M
best case 24.0M (DARK SOULS™ III)
Games like Beyond the Ice Palace 2

The middle of these games

≈ 996k–4.5M copies

≈ $5.8M–$20.6M after Steam's cut

from ~25k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DARK SOULS™ III at ≈ 18.3M–29.7M copies, ≈ $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 70 to 10k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Exploration (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $60.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 2 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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