How much revenue did The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection make?

$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection sell?

Q: How many copies did The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection sell?

124k to 202k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124k–202k; $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before the cut; from 5k 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 The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 919k–1.8M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection

The middle of these games

≈ 919k–1.8M copies

≈ $12.3M–$17.9M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 953 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (8 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Romance + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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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