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Action-adventure game Dead Rising 2, released in 2010, features open-world zombie combat and co-op. Developed by Capcom Vancouver and published by Capcom, it has garnered 8,704 Steam reviews with a 78% positive rating.
Overview
Dead Rising® 2 is a 2010 Action game developed by Capcom Vancouver and published by Capcom. On Steam it has gathered 8,714 player reviews, 78% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Capcom Vancouver with publisher Capcom 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 418,000 to 976,000 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, Dead Rising® 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,714
Positive
78%
Steam appid
45740
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0418K to 976K
units (median: 697K)
≈ $4.8M to $11.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2010 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_78% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Dead Rising® 2 at roughly 418,000 to 976,000 copies, with a median around 697,000, derived from its 8,714 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.0M 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 $10.50Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.50 to $19.99, averaging $18.17 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.50 on 2026-05-20.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
ZombiesActionOpen WorldCo-opAdventureOnline Co-OpThird PersonMultiplayerGoreComedySurvivalFunnyCharacter CustomizationSandboxCraftingSingleplayerMultiple EndingsHorrorRPG3D Vision
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead Rising® 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Dead Rising® 2 has sold between 418,272 and 975,968 units (median 697,120), derived from its 8,714 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead Rising® 2?
- Dead Rising® 2 was developed by Capcom Vancouver and published by Capcom.
- When was Dead Rising® 2 released?
- Dead Rising® 2 was released in 2010.
- How many reviews does Dead Rising® 2 have on Steam?
- Dead Rising® 2 has 8,714 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dead Rising® 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, Capcom Vancouver's other releases and Capcom's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dead Rising® 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 Dead Rising® 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.