How many copies did Champions Online sell?

277k to 450k 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 owners: ≈ 277k–450k; from 4k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Champions Online out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Champions Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.3M–17.9M

best case 20.6M (Monster Hunter: World)

Games like Champions Online

The middle of these games

≈ 7.3M–17.9M copies

≈ $70.7M–$161.9M after Steam's cut

from ~237k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Monster Hunter: World at ≈ 15.7M–25.5M copies, ≈ $129.5M–$348.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on MMORPG (6 of 8) and Character Customization (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Open World, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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