How many copies did STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ sell?

1.9M to 3.0M copies, based on its 76k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ make?

STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1.9M–3.0M; from 76k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16.2M–30.1M

best case 35.2M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™

A typical game among these

≈ 16.2M–30.1M copies

≈ $115.0M–$174.1M after Steam's cut

from ~663k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.8M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MMORPG (2 of 3) and Open World (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of the 3 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.8M–43.5M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut $200.7M–$456.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	779k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Path of Exile 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $46.4M–$124.6M after Steam's cut $84.3M–$191.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	227k reviews Mostly Positive	Action RPGHack and Slash
Destiny 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 19.1M–31.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	663k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World