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How big is WWII Online?

Estimated owners
≈ 94k–153k
from 4k 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 WWII Online out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WWII Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 521k–1.1M
best case 64.7M (War Thunder)
Games like WWII Online

The middle of these games

≈ 521k–1.1M copies

≈ $5.9M–$14.1M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Flight (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Vehicular Combat + Combat + Free to Play; 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).

Similar games

War Thunder
2013
Est. copies
≈ 49.3M–80.1M
79x vs typical
SteamSpy 20M–50M
Est. revenue
Free
Free
780k reviews
Mostly Positive
Free to PlaySimulation
Ace Combat Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition
2013
Est. copies
≈ 332k–539k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
Free
Free
5k reviews
Mixed
ActionFlight
DCS World Steam Edition
2013
Est. copies
≈ 2.6M–4.2M
4.1x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
Free
Free
41k reviews
Very Positive
SimulationFlight
World of Warplanes
2022
Est. copies
≈ 140k–227k
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
Free
Free
6k reviews
Mixed
FlightFPS
STAR WARS™: Squadrons
2020
Est. copies
≈ 698k–1.1M
2.8x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
$7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before the cut
$39.99
28k reviews
Mixed
FlightSpace
X Rebirth
2013
Est. copies
≈ 462k–751k
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.8M before the cut
$29.99
7k reviews
Mixed
SimulationSpace
Guns of Icarus Online
2012
Est. copies
≈ 927k–1.5M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before the cut
$4.99
15k reviews
Very Positive
SteampunkTeam-Based
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad
2014
Est. copies
≈ 555k–902k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$7.6M–$20.5M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.6M before the cut
$49.99
10k reviews
Mostly Positive
FlightRealistic

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