How much revenue did Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector make?

$1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector sell?

Q: How many copies did Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector sell?

171k to 278k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 171k–278k; $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 342k–626k

best case 1.6M (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader)

Games like Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

A typical game among these

≈ 342k–626k copies

≈ $4.5M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8) and Turn-Based (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Cinematic, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 61 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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