How much revenue did ZAR make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ZAR sell?

Q: How many copies did ZAR sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 26 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 ZAR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ZAR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293–5k

best case 14k (The Inquisitor)

Games like ZAR

A typical game among these

≈ 293–5k copies

≈ $1k–$25k after Steam's cut

from ~75 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Inquisitor at ≈ 11k–17k copies, ≈ $117k–$315k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 241.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (7 of 8) and Alternate History (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Alternate History, priced around $40.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 43 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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