How much revenue did Monster Hunter Wilds make?

$89.6M–$240.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monster Hunter Wilds sell?

Q: How many copies did Monster Hunter Wilds sell?

8.1M to 13.2M copies, based on its 329k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8.1M–13.2M; $89.6M–$240.9M after Steam's cut $162.9M–$370.6M before the cut; from 329k 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 Monster Hunter Wilds out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monster Hunter Wilds's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.2M–8.5M

best case 20.6M (Monster Hunter: World)

Games like Monster Hunter Wilds

The middle of these games

≈ 4.2M–8.5M copies

≈ $61.2M–$74.3M after Steam's cut

from ~127k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Monster Hunter: World at ≈ 15.7M–25.5M copies, ≈ $129.4M–$347.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2022, 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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The Isle 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.8M–9.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $32.0M–$86.1M after Steam's cut $58.2M–$132.5M before the cut	$19.99	119k reviews Very Positive	DinosaursSurvival
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Far Cry 3 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.4M–13.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.2M–$124.3M after Steam's cut $84.1M–$191.2M before the cut	$19.99	133k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldFPS
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Monster Hunter: World 2018	Est. copies ≈ 15.7M–25.5M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $129.4M–$347.8M after Steam's cut $235.2M–$535.1M before the cut	$29.99	516k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	128k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAdventure
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