How much revenue did How to Survive 2 make?

$1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did How to Survive 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did How to Survive 2 sell?

458k to 745k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 458k–745k; $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before the cut; from 11k reviews (Mixed)

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 How to Survive 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including How to Survive 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17.3M–39.8M

best case 87.5M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like How to Survive 2

The middle of these games

≈ 17.3M–39.8M copies

≈ $194.2M–$349.5M after Steam's cut

from ~486k 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: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 66.7M–108.4M copies, ≈ $183.2M–$492.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, 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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