How much revenue did Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition make?

$15.8M–$42.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition sell?

2.3M to 3.7M copies, based on its 36k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.3M–3.7M; $15.8M–$42.5M after Steam's cut $28.7M–$65.3M before the cut; from 36k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.0M–11.4M

best case 9.6M (Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord)

Games like Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 5.0M–11.4M copies

≈ $90.0M–$110.2M after Steam's cut

from ~153k 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: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at ≈ 7.3M–11.9M copies, ≈ $101.0M–$271.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 38k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19k to 200k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Medieval (6 of 8) and Historical (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Open World, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Open World + War + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
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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