Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
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Action indie game with turn-based strategy, character customization, cinematic story-rich play, and dark fantasy Warhammer 40K themes. Launched in 2023 by Owlcat Games as both developer and publisher, with 44,328 Steam reviews at 88% positive and a $49.99 initial price.
Overview
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a 2023 Action game developed by Owlcat Games and published by Owlcat Games. On Steam it has gathered 31,039 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $50. The pairing of developer Owlcat Games with publisher Owlcat Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.4 million to 3.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
31,039
Positive
88%
Steam appid
2186680
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.4M to 3.3M
units (median: 2.3M)
≈ $39.9M to $93.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$50 | +15 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at roughly 1.4 million to 3.3 million copies, with a median around 2.3 million, derived from its 31,039 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $66.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $26.51Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $26.51 to $49.99, averaging $47.90 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $26.51 on 2026-03-23.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -60%$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store -60%$20.00 Buy
- Fanatical -60%$23.13 Buy
- Steam reference$49.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Character CustomizationCinematicStory RichTurn-Based StrategyDark FantasyRomanceTurn-Based TacticsStrategyActionRPGTurn-BasedSingleplayerWarhammer 40KChoices MatterFuturisticMultiplayerAdventureCRPGTurn-Based CombatOnline Co-Op
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader sold?
- indielist estimates Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader has sold between 1,396,755 and 3,259,095 units (median 2,327,925), derived from its 31,039 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader?
- Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader was developed by Owlcat Games and published by Owlcat Games.
- When was Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader released?
- Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader have on Steam?
- Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader has 31,039 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Owlcat Games's other releases and Owlcat Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.