How much revenue did The Great War: Western Front™ make?

$784k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Great War: Western Front™ sell?

Q: How many copies did The Great War: Western Front™ sell?

81k to 132k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 81k–132k; $784k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 The Great War: Western Front™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Great War: Western Front™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–5.1M

best case 4.8M (Total War: WARHAMMER III)

Games like The Great War: Western Front™

The middle of these games

≈ 2.6M–5.1M copies

≈ $57.3M–$100.2M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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.

Best case: Total War: WARHAMMER III at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $60.5M–$162.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (8 of 8) and RTS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Grand Strategy, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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Total War: WARHAMMER III 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $60.5M–$162.7M after Steam's cut $110.0M–$250.2M before the cut	$59.99	148k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
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