How many copies did Tanki Online sell?

243k to 395k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Tanki Online make?

Tanki Online is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Tanki Online?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 243k–395k; from 7k 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 Tanki Online and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tanki Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–44.9M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Tanki Online

A typical game among these

≈ 4.6M–44.9M copies

≈ $207.6M after Steam's cut

from ~175k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Tanks (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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 104 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tanks (4 of 8) and Vehicular Combat (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2021, 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 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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Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.9M–69.7M 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	678k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut $204.7M–$465.6M before Steam's cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy
World of Tanks 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	101k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play
ExoTanks 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	197 reviews Mixed	ActionMassively Multiplayer
World of Tanks Blitz 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	153k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksFree to Play
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade 2016	Est. copies ≈ 520k–845k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Mixed	Warhammer 40KAction
重装无限·Metal Infinite 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$1.99	87 reviews Mixed	TanksFuturistic