How many copies did War Robots sell?

934k to 1.5M copies, based on its 31k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did War Robots make?

War Robots is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is War Robots?

Estimated owners: ≈ 934k–1.5M; from 31k reviews (Mixed)

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 War Robots out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War Robots's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 326k–881k

best case 1.5M (Trailmakers)

Games like War Robots

The middle of these games

≈ 326k–881k copies

≈ $4.1M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Trailmakers at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Robots (5 of 8) and Sci-fi (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Space + Family Friendly + Co-op Campaign; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 1 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 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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