How much revenue did ZED ZONE make?

$303k–$814k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ZED ZONE sell?

Q: How many copies did ZED ZONE sell?

92k to 149k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 92k–149k; $303k–$814k after Steam's cut $551k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Very 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 ZED ZONE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ZED ZONE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.4M–20.9M

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like ZED ZONE

A typical game among these

≈ 6.4M–20.9M copies

≈ $119.0M–$294.6M after Steam's cut

from ~311k 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 93k reviews in their first month; the range was 12k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (8 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, 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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The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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