How much revenue did WW2 Rebuilder make?

$216k–$580k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WW2 Rebuilder sell?

Q: How many copies did WW2 Rebuilder sell?

39k to 64k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–64k; $216k–$580k after Steam's cut $392k–$892k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

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

Does this actually work?

We left WW2 Rebuilder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WW2 Rebuilder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.0M–20.0M

best case 64.7M (War Thunder)

Games like WW2 Rebuilder

The middle of these games

≈ 6.0M–20.0M copies

≈ $86.4M–$261.3M after Steam's cut

from ~221k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is City Builder (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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 362 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 47k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (4 of 8) and War (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 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 31 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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