How many copies did Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ sell?

1.5M to 2.5M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Q: How much revenue did Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ make?

$6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.5M–2.5M; $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.4M before Steam's cut; from 28k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 253k–503k

best case 7.4M (Battlefield™ 1)

Games like Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™

A typical game among these

≈ 253k–503k copies

≈ $2.9M–$8.2M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

Best case: Battlefield™ 1 at ≈ 5.7M–9.2M copies, ≈ $62.3M–$167.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (5 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + World War I, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + First-Person + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, 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
Battlefield™ 1 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.2M 29x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $62.3M–$167.4M after Steam's cut $113.2M–$257.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	228k reviews Very Positive	FPSMultiplayer
Verdun 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $30.4M–$81.6M after Steam's cut $55.2M–$125.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	38k reviews Very Positive	ShooterCo-op
Tannenberg 2017	Est. copies ≈ 337k–548k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	GoreWorld War I
Medal of Honor: Airborne 2009	Est. copies ≈ 320k–520k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	ActionWorld War II
Isonzo 2022	Est. copies ≈ 429k–696k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.6M–$21.9M before Steam's cut	$44.99	17k reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericSimulation
Last Train Home 2023	Est. copies ≈ 138k–224k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	6k reviews Very Positive	StrategyReal Time Tactics
Beyond The Wire 2022	Est. copies ≈ 187k–304k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $514k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $934k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	8k reviews Mixed	FPSWar
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts 2023	Est. copies ≈ 199k–323k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	8k reviews Mixed	Naval CombatNaval