How much revenue did War Tanks make?

$34–$91 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did War Tanks sell?

Q: How many copies did War Tanks sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $34–$91 after Steam's cut $61–$140 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Tanks and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War Tanks's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–815k

best case 3.3M (World of Tanks)

Games like War Tanks

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–815k copies

≈ $10k–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: World of Tanks at ≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 9k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Wargame (6 of 8) and Military (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tanks + Military.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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