How much revenue did Mission Z make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mission Z sell?

Q: How many copies did Mission Z sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 21 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 Mission Z and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mission Z's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.9M–24.5M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Mission Z

A typical game among these

≈ 7.9M–24.5M copies

≈ $122.6M–$284.2M after Steam's cut

from ~296k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 76 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 143k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Realistic (8 of 8) and Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, 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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