How much revenue did Labyrinth of Zangetsu make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Labyrinth of Zangetsu sell?

Q: How many copies did Labyrinth of Zangetsu sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 82 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $31k–$69k before Steam's cut; from 82 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 Labyrinth of Zangetsu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Labyrinth of Zangetsu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–6k

best case 117k (Our Adventurer Guild)

Games like Labyrinth of Zangetsu

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–6k copies

≈ $19k–$28k after Steam's cut

from ~102 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Our Adventurer Guild at ≈ 89k–145k copies, ≈ $368k–$990k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 92 reviews in their first month; the range was 43 to 509.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party-Based RPG, priced around $7.
When they shipped: 5 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 70 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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