How much revenue did ZEROED make?

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ZEROED sell?

Q: How many copies did ZEROED sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut; from 15 reviews (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 ZEROED and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ZEROED's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 156k–700k

best case 917k (Need for Speed™ Most Wanted)

Games like ZEROED

A typical game among these

≈ 156k–700k copies

≈ $1.0M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Need for Speed™ Most Wanted at ≈ 699k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 451 reviews in their first month; the range was 128 to 779.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (7 of 8) and Combat Racing (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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).

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