How much revenue did Angry Zombies make?

$529–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Angry Zombies sell?

Q: How many copies did Angry Zombies sell?

967 to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 967–2k; $529–$1k after Steam's cut $962–$2k before Steam's cut; from 39 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 Angry Zombies and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Angry Zombies's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 124k–387k

best case 2.2M (Bodycam)

Games like Angry Zombies

A typical game among these

≈ 124k–387k copies

≈ $170k–$743k after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Physics (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Bodycam at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 97 to 32k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Physics (4 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Realistic, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Early Access + FPS + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2024, and 2 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 79 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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Zup! Zero 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94k–154k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $52k–$139k after Steam's cut $94k–$214k before Steam's cut	$1.99	3k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleCasual
BEEP 2011	Est. copies ≈ 295k–480k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	IndiePlatformer
Bodycam 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut $27.8M–$63.3M before Steam's cut	$33.32	67k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessFPS
Zombie Killing Simulator 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	156 reviews Mixed	GoreAction
Zup! 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 193k–313k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $106k–$284k after Steam's cut $192k–$437k before Steam's cut	$1.99	6k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleCasual
FlatOut 2007	Est. copies ≈ 423k–688k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $872k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$7.49	7k reviews Very Positive	Combat RacingRacing
Brick Rigs 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.2M–$22.0M after Steam's cut $14.8M–$33.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	60k reviews Very Positive	SandboxDestruction
Ancient Warfare 3 2024	Est. copies ≈ 69k–112k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $246k–$663k after Steam's cut $448k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$12.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxSimulation