Orcs Must Die! 2
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Action tower defense drives Orcs Must Die! 2, with co-op, strategy, and online co-op tags shaping its lane. Released in 2012 by Robot Entertainment and self-published, it has 19,558 Steam reviews with 92% positive sentiment and a $14.99 initial price.
Overview
Orcs Must Die! 2 is a 2012 Action game developed by Robot Entertainment and published by Robot Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 19,562 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Robot Entertainment with publisher Robot Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million 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, Orcs Must Die! 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
19,562
Positive
92%
Steam appid
201790
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $9.0M to $21.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Orcs Must Die! 2 at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 19,562 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $15.1M 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 $9.21Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.21 to $14.99, averaging $13.97 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $9.21 on 2026-05-28.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Tower DefenseCo-opActionStrategyOnline Co-OpIndieMultiplayerThird PersonRPGThird-Person ShooterAdventureComedySingleplayerCartoonyShooterFantasyFemale ProtagonistControllerFunnyGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Orcs Must Die! 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Orcs Must Die! 2 has sold between 1,056,348 and 2,464,812 units (median 1,760,580), derived from its 19,562 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Orcs Must Die! 2?
- Orcs Must Die! 2 was developed by Robot Entertainment and published by Robot Entertainment.
- When was Orcs Must Die! 2 released?
- Orcs Must Die! 2 was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Orcs Must Die! 2 have on Steam?
- Orcs Must Die! 2 has 19,562 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Orcs Must Die! 2 within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Robot Entertainment's other releases and Robot Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Orcs Must Die! 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 Orcs Must Die! 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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.