How much revenue did The Evil Within 2 make?

$11.7M–$31.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Evil Within 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Evil Within 2 sell?

1.1M to 1.7M copies, based on its 31k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.7M; $11.7M–$31.5M after Steam's cut $21.3M–$48.4M before the cut; from 31k 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 The Evil Within 2 out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including The Evil Within 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.0M–21.8M

best case 50.8M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like The Evil Within 2

The middle of these games

≈ 8.0M–21.8M copies

≈ $77.2M–$265.2M after Steam's cut

from ~271k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.7M–62.9M copies, ≈ $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (3 of 4) and Survival Horror (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 4 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 52 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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