How much revenue did Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 make?

$91.3M–$245.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 sell?

5.5M to 9.0M copies, based on its 223k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.5M–9.0M; $91.3M–$245.5M after Steam's cut $166.0M–$377.7M before the cut; from 223k 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 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–80.9M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–80.9M copies

≈ $32.2M–$636.4M after Steam's cut

from ~910k 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 Third-Person Shooter (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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 150 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Red Dead Redemption 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 26.2M–42.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $432.5M–$1162.8M after Steam's cut $786.3M–$1788.9M before the cut	$59.99	910k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldStory Rich
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade 2016	Est. copies ≈ 520k–845k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	13k reviews Mixed	Warhammer 40KAction
Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition 2021	Est. copies ≈ 13k–22k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $73k–$198k after Steam's cut $134k–$304k before the cut	$19.99	539 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionWarhammer 40K
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy 2015	Est. copies ≈ 101.3M–164.6M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.1M reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
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Relictor 2024	Est. copies ≈ 99–161 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before the cut	$9.99	4 reviews 4 user reviews	Early AccessSimulation
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.2M–$62.5M after Steam's cut $42.2M–$96.1M before the cut	$39.99	33k reviews Very Positive	Warhammer 40KAction