How much revenue did Wargame: European Escalation make?

$590k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wargame: European Escalation sell?

Q: How many copies did Wargame: European Escalation sell?

215k to 349k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 215k–349k; $590k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 Wargame: European Escalation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wargame: European Escalation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–190k

best case 1.5M (Wargame: Red Dragon)

Games like Wargame: European Escalation

A typical game among these

≈ 92k–190k copies

≈ $542k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Wargame: Red Dragon at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 360 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cold War (7 of 8) and RTS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Military, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Wargame + Turn-Based Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 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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