How much revenue did Mount & Blade: Warband make?

$59.8M–$160.9M 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–$160.9M after Steam's cut $108.8M–$247.5M before Steam's cut; from 172k 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 Mount & Blade: Warband and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Mount & Blade: Warband's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.0M–34.2M

best case 57.5M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered)

Games like Mount & Blade: Warband

A typical game among these

≈ 8.0M–34.2M copies

≈ $144.0M–$430.5M after Steam's cut

from ~257k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered at ≈ 43.8M–71.2M copies, ≈ $602.5M–$1620.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 4) and Fantasy (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 1 of the 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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DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $71.3M–$191.8M after Steam's cut $129.7M–$295.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	133k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 2011	Est. copies ≈ 20.1M–32.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $110.4M–$296.9M after Steam's cut $200.7M–$456.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	318k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II 2025	Est. copies ≈ 4.9M–7.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $80.4M–$216.0M after Steam's cut $146.1M–$332.4M before Steam's cut	$59.99	196k reviews Very Positive	RPGMedieval
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered 2015	Est. copies ≈ 43.8M–71.2M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $602.5M–$1620.0M after Steam's cut $1095.5M–$2492.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	898k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldRPG