How much revenue did Monster Train 2 make?

$1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monster Train 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Monster Train 2 sell?

250k to 407k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 250k–407k; $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.1M before the cut; from 10k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Monster Train 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monster Train 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 145k–517k

best case 6.4M (Balatro)

Games like Monster Train 2

The middle of these games

≈ 145k–517k copies

≈ $1.2M–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Balatro at ≈ 4.9M–8.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.4M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Card Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Replay Value + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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