How much revenue did Psychonauts 2 make?

$5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Psychonauts 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Psychonauts 2 sell?

357k to 580k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 357k–580k; $5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut $10.7M–$24.4M before the cut; from 14k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Psychonauts 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Psychonauts 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–8.1M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Psychonauts 2

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–8.1M copies

≈ $11.6M–$46.4M after Steam's cut

from ~84k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (3 of 8), 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (3 of 8) and Female Protagonist (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2022, and none of them 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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Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.5M–20.4M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.6M after Steam's cut $62.6M–$142.5M before the cut	$9.99	198k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $14.1M–$37.9M after Steam's cut $25.6M–$58.3M before the cut	$39.99	52k reviews Very Positive	RPGAction RPG
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.1M before the cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Sonic Frontiers 2022	Est. copies ≈ 704k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.8M after Steam's cut $14.1M–$32.0M before the cut	$39.99	28k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackOpen World
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M 5.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Mirror 2: Project X 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.5M before the cut	$1.99	116k reviews Mostly Negative	3DMatch 3
A Story About My Uncle 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $6.8M–$18.1M after Steam's cut $12.3M–$27.9M before the cut	$14.99	29k reviews Very Positive	AdventureFirst-Person
Sonic Adventure 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before the cut	$9.99	28k reviews Very Positive	ActionGreat Soundtrack