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Action-focused gameplay defines The Surge 2, a 2019 release from deck13 and publisher focus-entertainment. On Steam it has 9,389 user reviews with 76% positive sentiment, listed as mostly positive, and launched at an initial price of $29.99.
Overview
The Surge 2 is a 2019 Action game developed by Deck13 and published by Focus Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 9,392 player reviews, 76% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Deck13 with publisher Focus 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 394,000 to 920,000 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, The Surge 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,392
Positive
76%
Steam appid
644830
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0394K to 920K
units (median: 657K)
≈ $6.8M to $15.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_76% | 0 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 The Surge 2 at roughly 394,000 to 920,000 copies, with a median around 657,000, derived from its 9,392 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $11.3M 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 $15.39Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $15.39 to $29.99, averaging $28.31 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $15.39 on 2026-05-07.
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Where to buy
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- Fanatical -87%$4.62 Buy
- Steam reference$29.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Humble Store
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Surge 2 sold?
- indielist estimates The Surge 2 has sold between 394,464 and 920,416 units (median 657,440), derived from its 9,392 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Surge 2?
- The Surge 2 was developed by Deck13 and published by Focus Entertainment.
- When was The Surge 2 released?
- The Surge 2 was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does The Surge 2 have on Steam?
- The Surge 2 has 9,392 Steam reviews, of which 76% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Surge 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, Deck13's other releases and Focus Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Surge 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 The Surge 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.