How much revenue did Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution make?

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution sell?

Q: How many copies did Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution sell?

326k to 529k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 326k–529k; from 13k 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 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–4.0M

best case 9.4M (Company of Heroes 2)

Games like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–4.0M copies

≈ $18.2M–$58.9M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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.

Best case: Company of Heroes 2 at ≈ 7.2M–11.6M copies, ≈ $39.4M–$105.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (8 of 8) and Tactical (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War II + RTS, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 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 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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