How much revenue did Magic Research 2 make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Magic Research 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Magic Research 2 sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 613 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $46k–$104k before the cut; from 613 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 Magic Research 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magic Research 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–20k

best case 88k (Your Chronicle)

Games like Magic Research 2

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–20k copies

≈ $1k–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~262 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Your Chronicle at ≈ 67k–109k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 70 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 417.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Auto Battler (8 of 8) and Idler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Text-Based.
The era: Only 1 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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