How much revenue did Sugar Tanks 2 make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sugar Tanks 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Sugar Tanks 2 sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before the cut; from 20 reviews (Mostly 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 Sugar Tanks 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sugar Tanks 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.1M

best case 10.6M (Battlefield™ 2042)

Games like Sugar Tanks 2

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–2.1M copies

≈ $12.4M–$13.1M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Battlefield™ 2042 at ≈ 8.1M–13.1M copies, ≈ $133.2M–$358.1M 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 5 to 89k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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