How much revenue did Total War: WARHAMMER II make?

$68.9M–$185.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Total War: WARHAMMER II sell?

Q: How many copies did Total War: WARHAMMER II sell?

4.2M to 6.8M copies, based on its 121k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.2M–6.8M; $68.9M–$185.3M after Steam's cut $125.3M–$285.1M before the cut; from 121k 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 Total War: WARHAMMER II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Total War: WARHAMMER II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–3.0M

best case 4.8M (Total War: WARHAMMER III)

Games like Total War: WARHAMMER II

The middle of these games

≈ 50k–3.0M copies

≈ $308k–$57.6M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

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 877 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 105 to 32k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (6 of 8) and Fantasy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Grand Strategy, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 of your 8 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 70 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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