How many copies did Battle for Wesnoth sell?

182k to 296k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Battle for Wesnoth make?

Battle for Wesnoth is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Battle for Wesnoth?

Estimated owners: ≈ 182k–296k; from 6k 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 Battle for Wesnoth out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battle for Wesnoth's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.4M

best case 2.9M (Total War: WARHAMMER)

Games like Battle for Wesnoth

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies

≈ $4.6M–$30.5M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: Total War: WARHAMMER at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies, ≈ $35.9M–$96.5M 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 975 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8) and War (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fantasy + RTS, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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