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How many copies did Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 753k–1.2M
$3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before the cut
from 12k 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 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 789k–1.2M
best case 4.8M (Total War: WARHAMMER III)
Games like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)

The middle of these games

≈ 789k–1.2M copies

≈ $18.0M–$20.9M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Total War: WARHAMMER III at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $60.5M–$162.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on RTS (8 of 8) and Games Workshop (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Fantasy + RTS, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Fantasy + War + Turn-Based Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 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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