How many copies did Champions Online sell?

277k to 451k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Champions Online make?

Champions Online is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Champions Online?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 277k–451k; from 4k 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 Champions Online and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Champions Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.3M–17.9M

best case 20.7M (Monster Hunter: World)

Games like Champions Online

A typical game among these

≈ 7.3M–17.9M copies

≈ $71.0M–$162.5M after Steam's cut

from ~238k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Monster Hunter: World at ≈ 15.8M–25.6M copies, ≈ $129.9M–$349.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 128k reviews in their first month; the range was 102k to 145k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MMORPG (6 of 8) and Character Customization (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Open World, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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