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How many copies did VALHALL: Harbinger sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 12k–20k
$103k–$276k after Steam's cut $187k–$425k before Steam's cut
from 502 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 VALHALL: Harbinger and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including VALHALL: Harbinger's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–66k
best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like VALHALL: Harbinger

A typical game among these

≈ 52k–66k copies

≈ $313k–$598k 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Survival (5 of 8) and Building (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 43 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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