How much revenue did Just Cause 2 make?

$13.4M–$36.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Just Cause 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Just Cause 2 sell?

3.3M to 5.3M copies, based on its 52k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.3M–5.3M; $13.4M–$36.1M after Steam's cut $24.4M–$55.6M before the cut; from 52k 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 Just Cause 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Just Cause 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.9M–34.7M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Just Cause 2

The middle of these games

≈ 8.9M–34.7M copies

≈ $129.2M–$209.8M after Steam's cut

from ~307k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Automobile Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy 2015	Est. copies ≈ 101.3M–164.6M 6.8x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.1M reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
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