How much revenue did Mount & Blade: Warband make?

$59.8M–$160.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mount & Blade: Warband sell?

Q: How many copies did Mount & Blade: Warband sell?

10.9M to 17.7M copies, based on its 172k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10.9M–17.7M; $59.8M–$160.7M after Steam's cut $108.7M–$247.3M before the cut; from 172k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Mount & Blade: Warband out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Mount & Blade: Warband's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.9M–34.0M

best case 56.9M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition)

Games like Mount & Blade: Warband

The middle of these games

≈ 7.9M–34.0M copies

≈ $142.5M–$427.3M after Steam's cut

from ~256k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition at ≈ 43.3M–70.4M copies, ≈ $595.5M–$1601.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (3 of 4) and Fantasy (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 1 of your 4 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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