How much revenue did Slave Zero X make?

$84k–$225k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Slave Zero X sell?

Q: How many copies did Slave Zero X sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 492 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $84k–$225k after Steam's cut $152k–$347k before Steam's cut; from 492 reviews (Mostly 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 Slave Zero X and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Slave Zero X's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–6.5M

best case 6.5M (Devil May Cry 5)

Games like Slave Zero X

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–6.5M copies

≈ $13.0M–$75.2M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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: Devil May Cry 5 at ≈ 4.9M–8.0M copies, ≈ $40.6M–$109.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 9k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (7 of 8) and Spectacle fighter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hack and Slash + Character Action Game, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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