How much revenue did ZCREW make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ZCREW sell?

Q: How many copies did ZCREW sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 362 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before Steam's cut; from 362 reviews (Mixed)

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 ZCREW and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ZCREW's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 186k–2.8M

best case 9.1M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like ZCREW

A typical game among these

≈ 186k–2.8M copies

≈ $1.4M–$49.2M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.4M–$205.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 98 to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Zombies (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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