How much revenue did Zombie Shooter: Ares Virus make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zombie Shooter: Ares Virus sell?

Q: How many copies did Zombie Shooter: Ares Virus sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 185 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before Steam's cut; from 185 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Zombie Shooter: Ares Virus and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zombie Shooter: Ares Virus's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–149k

best case 8.1M (Z1 Battle Royale)

Games like Zombie Shooter: Ares Virus

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–149k copies

from ~3k 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: Z1 Battle Royale at ≈ 6.2M–10.0M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Battle Royale (6 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World. The breakout hits carry Open World + Survival + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 for the most recent game here to about 52 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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