How much revenue did Difficult times 2 make?

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

How many copies did Difficult times 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Difficult times 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 (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 Difficult times 2 out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Difficult times 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–87k

best case 92k (City Bus Manager)

Games like Difficult times 2

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–87k copies

≈ $8k–$800k after Steam's cut

from ~932 reviews

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

3 of your 7 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Arena Shooter (3 of 7), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: City Bus Manager at ≈ 70k–114k copies, ≈ $581k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 119 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arena Shooter (3 of 7) and Logic (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 2 of your 7 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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