How much revenue did War Beasts make?

$633–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did War Beasts sell?

Q: How many copies did War Beasts sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $633–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 31 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 War Beasts out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War Beasts's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–50k

best case 63k (Stickman Trenches)

Games like War Beasts

The middle of these games

≈ 13k–50k copies

≈ $51k–$130k after Steam's cut

from ~496 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stickman Trenches at ≈ 48k–79k copies, ≈ $80k–$214k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 233 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 297.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (5 of 8) and Wargame (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War I + Tanks, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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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