How much revenue did Total War: WARHAMMER make?

$35.9M–$96.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Total War: WARHAMMER sell?

Q: How many copies did Total War: WARHAMMER sell?

2.2M to 3.5M copies, based on its 52k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.2M–3.5M; $35.9M–$96.6M after Steam's cut $65.3M–$148.6M before Steam's cut; from 52k 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 Total War: WARHAMMER and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Total War: WARHAMMER's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.9M

best case 4.9M (Total War: WARHAMMER III)

Games like Total War: WARHAMMER

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–3.9M copies

≈ $14.0M–$83.9M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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 Grand Strategy (4 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: Total War: WARHAMMER III at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $61.3M–$164.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 32k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Grand Strategy (4 of 8) and RTS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Grand Strategy, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Against the Storm 2023	Est. copies ≈ 934k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	38k reviews Very Positive	StrategyCity Builder
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut $54.0M–$123.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	94k reviews Very Positive	StrategyHistorical
Total War: WARHAMMER III 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $61.3M–$164.8M after Steam's cut $111.4M–$253.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	150k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Minion Masters 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	65k reviews Very Positive	PvETrading Card Game
Total War: WARHAMMER II 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $68.9M–$185.3M after Steam's cut $125.3M–$285.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	121k reviews Very Positive	StrategyFantasy
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