In Europe alone, Anstoss achieved lifetime sales of 260,000 units by 2004, a figure that Stern's Volker Gast called "respectable".
[3] On Media Control's computer game sales charts for the German market, Anstoss 2 claimed positions 4 and 7 in the first and second halves of October 1997.
[6] Anstoss 2 remained in 11th place on the Media Control charts by May 1998's latter half,[7][8] by which time it had spent 38 consecutive weeks in the firm's top rankings.
[7] In November 1998, the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD) presented the game with a "Gold" award,[9] indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
[10] The game's Anstoss 2 Gold edition held in Media Control's charts through late 1998, and retained places 16th and 19th for January 1999.