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

$38.0M–$102.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

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

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

3.5M to 5.6M copies, based on its 139k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.5M–5.6M; $38.0M–$102.2M after Steam's cut $69.1M–$157.2M before Steam's cut; from 139k reviews (Mostly 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: Darktide and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 404k–1.8M

best case 3.1M (Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2)

Games like Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

A typical game among these

≈ 404k–1.8M copies

≈ $3.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 at ≈ 2.4M–3.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Team-Based (3 of 3) and First-Person (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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Isonzo 2022	Est. copies ≈ 429k–696k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.6M–$21.9M before Steam's cut	$44.99	17k reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericSimulation
Midnight Ghost Hunt 2024	Est. copies ≈ 187k–304k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerCombat
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Very Positive	FPSMultiplayer