How much revenue did Return to Castle Wolfenstein make?

$804k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return to Castle Wolfenstein sell?

Q: How many copies did Return to Castle Wolfenstein sell?

586k to 952k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 586k–952k; $804k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before the cut; from 9k 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 Return to Castle Wolfenstein out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return to Castle Wolfenstein's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 405k–1.2M

best case 4.4M (Call of Duty: World at War)

Games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein

The middle of these games

≈ 405k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.1M–$7.5M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Call of Duty: World at War at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on World War II (8 of 8) and FPS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + World War II, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2003 to 2010, 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 of about 79, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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