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How many copies did Hammerwatch II sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 55k–90k
$379k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $688k–$1.6M before the cut
from 2k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Hammerwatch II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hammerwatch II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.8M–23.4M
best case 56.1M (Warframe)
Games like Hammerwatch II

The middle of these games

≈ 7.8M–23.4M copies

≈ $67.6M–$211.5M after Steam's cut

from ~199k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action RPG (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Warframe at ≈ 42.7M–69.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action RPG (4 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2018, and none of them shipped in the last two years.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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SteamSpy 5M–10M
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2DOnline Co-Op
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