How much revenue did Warhammer: Vermintide 2 make?

$37.0M–$99.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Warhammer: Vermintide 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Warhammer: Vermintide 2 sell?

4.5M to 7.3M copies, based on its 148k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.5M–7.3M; $37.0M–$99.6M after Steam's cut $67.3M–$153.2M before Steam's cut; from 148k reviews (Very 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 Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Warhammer: Vermintide 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.7M–5.2M

best case 4.9M (Total War: WARHAMMER III)

Games like Warhammer: Vermintide 2

A typical game among these

≈ 4.7M–5.2M copies

≈ $91.6M–$120.1M after Steam's cut

from ~139k 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 Games Workshop (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 32k reviews in their first month; the range was 10k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Games Workshop (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 2015 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 61 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
Total War: WARHAMMER II 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 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
Total War: WARHAMMER III 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M 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
Total War: WARHAMMER 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $35.9M–$96.6M after Steam's cut $65.3M–$148.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	52k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyFantasy
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.6M–$23.2M after Steam's cut $15.7M–$35.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	21k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionOnline Co-Op
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $38.0M–$102.2M after Steam's cut $69.1M–$157.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	139k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorTeam-Based
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M too small to compare SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut $30.0M–$68.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	48k reviews Very Positive	Character CustomizationCinematic
Warhammer: Chaosbane 2019	Est. copies ≈ 187k–304k too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	7k reviews Mixed	SingleplayerPvE
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic) 2016	Est. copies ≈ 253k–410k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	6k reviews Mixed	StrategyWarhammer 40K