How much revenue did Return to Castle Wolfenstein make?

$811k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return to Castle Wolfenstein sell?

Q: How many copies did Return to Castle Wolfenstein sell?

591k to 960k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 591k–960k; $811k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Return to Castle Wolfenstein and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return to Castle Wolfenstein's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 406k–1.2M

best case 4.4M (Call of Duty: World at War)

Games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein

A typical game among these

≈ 406k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.1M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Call of Duty: World at War at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $18.6M–$49.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share World War II (8 of 8) and FPS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + World War II, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2003 to 2010, 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 of about 79, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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