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How many copies did Call of Duty®: WWII sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 314k–511k
$5.2M–$13.9M after Steam's cut $9.4M–$21.5M before the cut
from 9k reviews (Very 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 Call of Duty®: WWII out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Call of Duty®: WWII's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–7.5M
best case 8.8M (Battlefield™ V)
Games like Call of Duty®: WWII

The middle of these games

≈ 4.0M–7.5M copies

≈ $38.2M–$104.0M after Steam's cut

from ~112k 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: Battlefield™ V at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $91.9M–$247.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 47k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + World War II, priced around $50.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 to 2021, 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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