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How many copies did WildStar sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 213k–346k
from 5k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left WildStar out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WildStar's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 700k–2.7M
best case 25.0M (Destiny 2)
Games like WildStar

The middle of these games

≈ 700k–2.7M copies

from ~23k 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: Destiny 2 at ≈ 19.0M–30.9M copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 7k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and MMORPG (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Looter Shooter.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 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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