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How many copies did Gunslingers & Zombies sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 719–1k
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut
from 29 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 Gunslingers & Zombies and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gunslingers & Zombies's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28k–220k
best case 713k (Red Dead Redemption)
Games like Gunslingers & Zombies

A typical game among these

≈ 28k–220k copies

≈ $593k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Red Dead Redemption at ≈ 543k–883k copies, ≈ $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 53 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8) and Zombies (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Western, priced around $50.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 3 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 70 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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