Estimated lifetime revenue
$14.99M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$10.74M
After Steam's 28% cut
Units sold
1.52M
≈ 14 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 109,901 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
109,901
Very Positive85% positive
Playing now
2,822
26-day peak 3,094 · low 2,822
New reviews, last 26 days
+352
≈ 14 a day since Sep 16

History

Sep 16 – Oct 12

109.9K109.8K109.7K109.5K
Sep 16Sep 29Oct 12

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Strategy →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Strategy games on Steam

Outearns 46% of them — below the group's median.

Median
$16.97M
114,628 reviews
Top 10% start at
$74.66M
This game
$14.99M
48th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

Developer
Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Publisher
2K, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Genre
Strategy
Released
Feb 4, 2016
Steam app ID
268500
Data updated
Oct 12, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.