How much revenue did HELLDIVERS™ 2 make?

$315.9M–$849.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HELLDIVERS™ 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did HELLDIVERS™ 2 sell?

28.7M to 46.7M copies, based on its 1.2M Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28.7M–46.7M; $315.9M–$849.4M after Steam's cut $574.4M–$1306.8M before the cut; from 1.2M 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 HELLDIVERS™ 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HELLDIVERS™ 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–9.2M

best case 56.1M (Warframe)

Games like HELLDIVERS™ 2

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–9.2M copies

≈ $13.3M–$77.7M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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: Warframe at ≈ 42.7M–69.4M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (6 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2026, 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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