How much revenue did War Beasts make?

$633–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did War Beasts sell?

Q: How many copies did War Beasts sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $633–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 31 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 War Beasts and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War Beasts's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–50k

best case 65k (Stickman Trenches)

Games like War Beasts

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–50k copies

≈ $51k–$132k after Steam's cut

from ~496 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stickman Trenches at ≈ 49k–80k copies, ≈ $81k–$219k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 233 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 297.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (5 of 8) and Wargame (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War I + Tanks, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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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