How much revenue did XCOM® 2 make?

$25.0M–$67.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did XCOM® 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did XCOM® 2 sell?

4.5M to 7.4M copies, based on its 109k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.5M–7.4M; $25.0M–$67.1M after Steam's cut $45.4M–$103.3M before the cut; from 109k 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 XCOM® 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including XCOM® 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 452k–1.4M

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)

Games like XCOM® 2

The middle of these games

≈ 452k–1.4M copies

≈ $2.6M–$11.1M 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: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.0M–$16.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Post-apocalyptic (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2023, 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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