How much revenue did Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 make?

$4.0M–$10.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 sell?

363k to 591k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 363k–591k; $4.0M–$10.7M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.5M before the cut; from 6k 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 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 857k–2.9M

best case 5.0M (Resident Evil Village)

Games like Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2

The middle of these games

≈ 857k–2.9M copies

≈ $9.5M–$56.1M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Resident Evil Village at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $41.8M–$112.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 92k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Vampire (5 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival Horror + Horror, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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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Vampyr 2018	Est. copies ≈ 764k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.4M–$22.6M after Steam's cut $15.3M–$34.8M before the cut	$39.99	25k reviews Mostly Positive	VampireRPG
V Rising 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.5M 6.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $32.6M–$87.8M after Steam's cut $59.4M–$135.0M before the cut	$34.99	137k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World
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Resident Evil Village 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.8M–$112.3M after Steam's cut $76.0M–$172.8M before the cut	$39.99	153k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Survival Horror Horror
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