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Action-focused gameplay leads Red Dead Redemption 2, from rockstar-games as both developer and publisher. The 2019 release has 814,365 Steam reviews with 92% positive (Very Positive) and an initial price of $59.99.
Overview
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a 2019 Action game developed by Rockstar Games and published by Rockstar Games. On Steam it has gathered 814,759 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 $60. The pairing of developer Rockstar Games with publisher Rockstar Games 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 44.0 million to 102.7 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, Red Dead Redemption 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
814,759
Positive
92%
Steam appid
1174180
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.044.0M to 102.7M
units (median: 73.3M)
≈ $1507.6M to $3517.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| 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 Red Dead Redemption 2 at roughly 44.0 million to 102.7 million copies, with a median around 73.3 million, derived from its 814,759 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2512.7M 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 $35.56Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $35.56 to $59.99, averaging $54.99 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $35.56 on 2026-05-23.
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Where to buy
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- Steam reference$59.99 Buy
- Humble Store$59.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Red Dead Redemption 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Red Dead Redemption 2 has sold between 43,996,986 and 102,659,634 units (median 73,328,310), derived from its 814,759 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Red Dead Redemption 2?
- Red Dead Redemption 2 was developed by Rockstar Games and published by Rockstar Games.
- When was Red Dead Redemption 2 released?
- Red Dead Redemption 2 was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Red Dead Redemption 2 have on Steam?
- Red Dead Redemption 2 has 814,759 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Red Dead Redemption 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, Rockstar Games's other releases and Rockstar Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Red Dead Redemption 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 Red Dead Redemption 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.