How much revenue did WARNO make?

$4.4M–$11.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WARNO sell?

Q: How many copies did WARNO sell?

397k to 645k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397k–645k; $4.4M–$11.7M after Steam's cut $7.9M–$18.1M before the cut; from 16k reviews (Mostly 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 WARNO out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WARNO's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–714k

best case 7.9M (Squad)

Games like WARNO

The middle of these games

≈ 33k–714k copies

≈ $352k–$3.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: Squad at ≈ 6.0M–9.8M copies, ≈ $66.2M–$178.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 555 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 57k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Military (8 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Military + Realistic, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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 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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