How much revenue did Welcome to the Game II make?

$294k–$791k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Welcome to the Game II sell?

Q: How many copies did Welcome to the Game II sell?

107k to 174k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 107k–174k; $294k–$791k after Steam's cut $535k–$1.2M before the cut; from 4k 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 Welcome to the Game II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Welcome to the Game II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–130k

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like Welcome to the Game II

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–130k copies

≈ $105k–$259k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hacking (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Simulation + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 61 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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