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How many copies did Necromunda: Underhive Wars sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74k–120k
$407k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $740k–$1.7M before Steam's cut
from 3k 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 Necromunda: Underhive Wars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Necromunda: Underhive Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–3.4M
best case 4.9M (Total War: WARHAMMER III)
Games like Necromunda: Underhive Wars

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–3.4M copies

≈ $24.4M–$101.3M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Total War: WARHAMMER III at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $61.3M–$164.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share RTS (7 of 8) and Games Workshop (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Grand Strategy, priced around $60.
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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3.4x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
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