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How many copies did Rusted Warfare - RTS sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 260k–422k
$357k–$959k after Steam's cut $649k–$1.5M before the cut
from 8k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Rusted Warfare - RTS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rusted Warfare - RTS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.2M–7.3M
best case 6.9M (Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition)
Games like Rusted Warfare - RTS

The middle of these games

≈ 4.2M–7.3M copies

≈ $52.2M–$67.5M after Steam's cut

from ~108k 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: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition at ≈ 5.2M–8.5M copies, ≈ $50.4M–$135.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Base-Building (6 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with RTS + City Builder, priced around $35.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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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