How many copies did War Thunder sell?

49.3M to 80.1M copies, based on its 780k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did War Thunder make?

War Thunder is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is War Thunder?

Estimated owners: ≈ 49.3M–80.1M; from 780k 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 Thunder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War Thunder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–3.1M

best case 8.4M (World of Tanks Blitz)

Games like War Thunder

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–3.1M copies

≈ $9.0M–$11.0M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (3 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: World of Tanks Blitz at ≈ 6.4M–10.4M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tanks + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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).

Similar games

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FlatOut 2 2006	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before the cut	$9.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RacingCombat Racing
Besiege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before the cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationSandbox
Trailmakers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.6M before the cut	$24.99	39k reviews Very Positive	SpaceAction
World of Tanks Blitz 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	153k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play
World of Tanks 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	101k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play
Enlisted 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	47k reviews Very Positive	FPSWorld War II
TerraTech 2018	Est. copies ≈ 758k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.2M–$14.0M after Steam's cut $9.5M–$21.5M before the cut	$24.99	25k reviews Very Positive	BuildingSandbox
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Very Positive	FPSMultiplayer