How many copies did War Thunder sell?

49.7M to 80.7M copies, based on its 786k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did War Thunder make?

War Thunder is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is War Thunder?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 49.7M–80.7M; from 786k 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 Thunder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War Thunder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.1M

best case 8.4M (World of Tanks Blitz)

Games like War Thunder

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–3.1M copies

≈ $9.0M–$11.1M after Steam's cut

from ~44k 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 FPS (3 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: World of Tanks Blitz at ≈ 6.4M–10.4M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tanks + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
FlatOut 2 2006	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$16.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RacingCombat Racing
Besiege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationSandbox
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
World of Tanks Blitz 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	153k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play
World of Tanks 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	101k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play
Enlisted 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	48k reviews Very Positive	FPSWorld War II
TerraTech 2018	Est. copies ≈ 761k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.2M–$14.1M after Steam's cut $9.5M–$21.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	25k reviews Very Positive	BuildingSandbox
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Very Positive	FPSMultiplayer