How much revenue did WW2 Rebuilder make?

$217k–$583k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WW2 Rebuilder sell?

Q: How many copies did WW2 Rebuilder sell?

39k to 64k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–64k; $217k–$583k after Steam's cut $394k–$897k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 WW2 Rebuilder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WW2 Rebuilder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.1M–19.5M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like WW2 Rebuilder

A typical game among these

≈ 6.1M–19.5M copies

≈ $86.6M–$257.9M after Steam's cut

from ~221k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is City Builder (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.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 362 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 47k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (4 of 8) and War (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 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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