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How many copies did Steel Warrior sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 273–443
$150–$401 after Steam's cut $272–$617 before the cut
from 11 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 Steel Warrior out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steel Warrior's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 921k–5.3M
best case 5.8M (Mad Max)
Games like Steel Warrior

The middle of these games

≈ 921k–5.3M copies

≈ $25.2M–$50.5M after Steam's cut

from ~32k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mad Max at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.2M–$65.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 575 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Third Person (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Vehicular Combat, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 to 2025, 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).

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