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How many copies did Return Of The Zombie King sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–4k
$3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut
from 76 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 Return Of The Zombie King and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return Of The Zombie King's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98k–257k
best case 262k (Melody's Escape)
Games like Return Of The Zombie King

A typical game among these

≈ 98k–257k copies

≈ $282k–$1.1M 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Melody's Escape at ≈ 200k–325k copies, ≈ $549k–$1.5M 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 435 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Runner (8 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music-Based Procedural Generation + Rhythm, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2022, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Melody's Escape
2016
Est. copies
≈ 200k–325k
1.8x vs typical
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $998k–$2.3M before Steam's cut
$9.99
5k reviews
Very Positive
Music-Based Procedural GenerationRhythm
Super Meat Boy Forever
2022
Est. copies
≈ 55k–89k
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$75k–$201k after Steam's cut $136k–$309k before Steam's cut
$4.99
2k reviews
Mixed
IndieAction
Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story™
2021
Est. copies
≈ 58k–95k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$160k–$430k after Steam's cut $291k–$661k before Steam's cut
$9.99
2k reviews
Mostly Positive
MusicRhythm
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
2013
Est. copies
≈ 195k–316k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$802k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut
$14.99
3k reviews
Very Positive
Soda Crisis
2022
Est. copies
≈ 80k–130k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$242k–$650k after Steam's cut $440k–$1.0M before Steam's cut
$10.99
3k reviews
Very Positive
Side ScrollerRunner
BIT.TRIP RUNNER
2011
Est. copies
≈ 250k–406k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$686k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut
$9.99
4k reviews
Very Positive
Vector
2013
Est. copies
≈ 89k–144k
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$170k–$458k after Steam's cut $310k–$705k before Steam's cut
$6.99
1k reviews
Very Positive
ParkourAction
Dino Run DX
2015
Est. copies
≈ 80k–130k
SteamSpy 100k–200k
Est. revenue
$131k–$353k after Steam's cut $239k–$543k before Steam's cut
$5.99
2k reviews
Very Positive
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