Natural Selection 2
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Natural Selection 2 is an action-strategy game released in 2012. It has received 8,603 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher information is not yet imported.
Overview
Natural Selection 2 is a 2012 Action game developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 13,342 player reviews, 85% 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 $5. The pairing of developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment with publisher Unknown Worlds 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 560,000 to 1.3 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, Natural Selection 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
13,342
Positive
85%
Steam appid
4920
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0560K to 1.3M
units (median: 934K)
≈ $1.6M to $3.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Natural Selection 2 at roughly 560,000 to 1.3 million copies, with a median around 934,000, derived from its 13,342 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.7M 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 $3.01Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $3.01 to $4.99, averaging $4.60 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $3.01 on 2026-04-19.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
MultiplayerStrategyFPSTeam-BasedActionSci-fiRTSAliensIndieCompetitiveShooterCo-opTacticalModdableFirst-PersonSpaceFuturisticAtmosphericOnline Co-OpAdventure
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Natural Selection 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Natural Selection 2 has sold between 560,364 and 1,307,516 units (median 933,940), derived from its 13,342 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Natural Selection 2?
- Natural Selection 2 was developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
- When was Natural Selection 2 released?
- Natural Selection 2 was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Natural Selection 2 have on Steam?
- Natural Selection 2 has 13,342 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Natural Selection 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Natural Selection 2 has sold between 560,364 and 1,307,516 units (median 933,940), derived from its 13,342 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Natural Selection 2?
- Natural Selection 2 was developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
- When was Natural Selection 2 released?
- Natural Selection 2 was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Natural Selection 2 have on Steam?
- Natural Selection 2 has 13,342 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Natural Selection 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, Unknown Worlds Entertainment's other releases and Unknown Worlds Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Natural Selection 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 Natural Selection 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.