How much revenue did Beyond: Two Souls make?

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

How many copies did Beyond: Two Souls sell?

Q: How many copies did Beyond: Two Souls sell?

1.1M to 1.7M copies, based on its 43k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.7M; $5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut $10.7M–$24.2M before the cut; from 43k 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 Beyond: Two Souls out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beyond: Two Souls's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–8.7M

best case 8.5M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Beyond: Two Souls

The middle of these games

≈ 2.7M–8.7M copies

≈ $22.9M–$153.7M after Steam's cut

from ~131k 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: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $71.2M–$191.3M 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 8k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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