God of War
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This 2022 action title from Santa Monica Studio and PlayStation Publishing LLC offers a story-rich, singleplayer mythological adventure. Its 125,950 Steam reviews, with 96% positive, indicate strong player reception for this release.
Overview
God of War is a 2022 Action game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by PlayStation Publishing LLC. On Steam it has gathered 126,188 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $50. The pairing of developer Santa Monica Studio with publisher PlayStation Publishing LLC 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 5.7 million to 13.2 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, God of War can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
126,188
Positive
96%
Steam appid
1593500
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.05.7M to 13.2M
units (median: 9.5M)
≈ $162.1M to $378.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$50 | +15 |
| positive_96% | +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 God of War at roughly 5.7 million to 13.2 million copies, with a median around 9.5 million, derived from its 126,188 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $270.2M 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 $26.37Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $26.37 to $49.99, averaging $47.03 across 1 discount window, with a historical low of $26.37 on 2026-03-21.
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Where to buy
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- Humble Store$49.99 Buy
- GOG.com$49.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$52.07 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has God of War sold?
- indielist estimates God of War has sold between 5,678,460 and 13,249,740 units (median 9,464,100), derived from its 126,188 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed God of War?
- God of War was developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by PlayStation Publishing LLC.
- When was God of War released?
- God of War was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does God of War have on Steam?
- God of War has 126,188 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions God of War within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Santa Monica Studio's other releases and PlayStation Publishing LLC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where God of War 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 God of War 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.