How many copies did World of Tanks sell?

2.5M to 4.1M copies, based on its 101k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did World of Tanks make?

World of Tanks is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is World of Tanks?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 2.5M–4.1M; from 101k 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 World of Tanks and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including World of Tanks's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 670k–2.5M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like World of Tanks

A typical game among these

≈ 670k–2.5M copies

≈ $4.5M–$14.2M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Simulation (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and World War II (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Vehicular Combat + Combat + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2020, 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 79 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
World of Tanks Blitz 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	153k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 22x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad 2014	Est. copies ≈ 559k–909k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before Steam's cut	$49.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	FlightRealistic
Trailmakers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut $14.2M–$32.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	39k reviews Very Positive	SpaceAction
Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition 2007	Est. copies ≈ 461k–750k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.4M before Steam's cut	$36.99	7k reviews Very Positive	StrategyWorld War II
ShellShock Live 2020	Est. copies ≈ 883k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	36k reviews Very Positive	TanksMultiplayer
Tank Mechanic Simulator 2020	Est. copies ≈ 235k–382k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	TanksSimulation
DCS World Steam Edition 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	41k reviews Very Positive	SimulationFlight