How much revenue did War for the Overworld make?

$3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did War for the Overworld sell?

Q: How many copies did War for the Overworld sell?

396k to 643k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 396k–643k; $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.5M before the cut; from 8k 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 War for the Overworld out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War for the Overworld's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82k–222k

best case 4.2M (Cult of the Lamb)

Games like War for the Overworld

The middle of these games

≈ 82k–222k copies

≈ $530k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Cult of the Lamb at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $21.9M–$58.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (5 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Base-Building + Cute + Action Roguelike; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 61 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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