Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
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This indie simulation game, released in 2023, offers a new installment in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. It has garnered 4,946 Steam reviews, indicating player engagement. The developer is currently unknown, and publisher attribution is pending.
Overview
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 is a 2023 Indie game developed by Steel Wool Studios and published by ScottGames. On Steam it has gathered 5,241 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Steel Wool Studios with publisher ScottGames is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 236,000 to 550,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
5,241
Positive
95%
Steam appid
2287520
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0236K to 550K
units (median: 393K)
≈ $5.4M to $12.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 at roughly 236,000 to 550,000 copies, with a median around 393,000, derived from its 5,241 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $22.18Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $22.18 to $39.99, averaging $37.89 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $22.18 on 2026-05-30.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
VRHorrorSingleplayerRobotsSimulationPuzzleJump ScareIndieEarly AccessFirst-PersonLGBTQ+CasualSurvival HorrorStory RichPsychological Horror
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 has sold between 235,845 and 550,305 units (median 393,075), derived from its 5,241 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2?
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 was developed by Steel Wool Studios and published by ScottGames.
- When was Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 released?
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 have on Steam?
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 has 5,241 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 has sold between 235,845 and 550,305 units (median 393,075), derived from its 5,241 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2?
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 was developed by Steel Wool Studios and published by ScottGames.
- When was Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 released?
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 have on Steam?
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 has 5,241 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Steel Wool Studios's other releases and ScottGames's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.