How much revenue did LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 make?

$170k–$457k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 sell?

62k to 100k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 62k–100k; $170k–$457k after Steam's cut $309k–$703k before the cut; from 2k 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 LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LIZARDS MUST DIE 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 124k–913k

best case 1.2M (Hi-Fi RUSH)

Games like LIZARDS MUST DIE 2

The middle of these games

≈ 124k–913k copies

≈ $982k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Hi-Fi RUSH at ≈ 890k–1.4M copies, ≈ $7.3M–$19.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 292 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (8 of 8) and Third Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, 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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