How much revenue did FOR HONOR™ make?

$46.9M–$126.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FOR HONOR™ sell?

Q: How many copies did FOR HONOR™ sell?

5.7M to 9.2M copies, based on its 165k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.7M–9.2M; $46.9M–$126.2M after Steam's cut $85.3M–$194.2M before Steam's cut; from 165k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–937k

best case 4.3M (MORDHAU)

Games like FOR HONOR™

A typical game among these

≈ 32k–937k copies

≈ $170k–$20.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: MORDHAU at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $26.9M–$72.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 868 reviews in their first month; the range was 48 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Swordplay (8 of 8) and Fighting (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + First-Person, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, 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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