How much revenue did Warhammer: Vermintide 2 make?

$36.9M–$99.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Warhammer: Vermintide 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Warhammer: Vermintide 2 sell?

4.5M to 7.3M copies, based on its 147k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.5M–7.3M; $36.9M–$99.3M after Steam's cut $67.2M–$152.8M before the cut; from 147k 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: Vermintide 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Warhammer: Vermintide 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.7M–5.1M

best case 4.8M (Total War: WARHAMMER III)

Games like Warhammer: Vermintide 2

The middle of these games

≈ 4.7M–5.1M copies

≈ $90.5M–$119.3M after Steam's cut

from ~138k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Games Workshop (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Total War: WARHAMMER III at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $60.5M–$162.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Games Workshop (4 of 8) and RTS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Grand Strategy, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Total War: WARHAMMER II 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $68.9M–$185.3M after Steam's cut $125.3M–$285.1M before the cut	$59.99	121k reviews Very Positive	StrategyFantasy
Total War: WARHAMMER III 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $60.5M–$162.7M after Steam's cut $110.0M–$250.2M before the cut	$59.99	148k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Total War: WARHAMMER 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $35.9M–$96.5M after Steam's cut $65.3M–$148.5M before the cut	$59.99	52k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyFantasy
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.6M–$23.2M after Steam's cut $15.7M–$35.7M before the cut	$29.99	21k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionOnline Co-Op
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $37.6M–$101.1M after Steam's cut $68.4M–$155.6M before the cut	$39.99	138k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorTeam-Based
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M too small to compare SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $16.2M–$43.6M after Steam's cut $29.5M–$67.0M before the cut	$49.99	48k reviews Very Positive	Character CustomizationCinematic
Warhammer: Chaosbane 2019	Est. copies ≈ 186k–303k too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before the cut	$29.99	6k reviews Mixed	SingleplayerPvE
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic) 2016	Est. copies ≈ 252k–409k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut	$14.99	6k reviews Mixed	StrategyWarhammer 40K