How much revenue did Halo Wars: Definitive Edition make?

$1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Halo Wars: Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Halo Wars: Definitive Edition sell?

327k to 532k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 327k–532k; $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before the cut; from 10k 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 Halo Wars: Definitive Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Halo Wars: Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 977k–1.2M

best case 1.1M (Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III)

Games like Halo Wars: Definitive Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 977k–1.2M copies

≈ $5.8M–$9.7M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III at ≈ 820k–1.3M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (8 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Warhammer 40K + RTS, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2020, 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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