How much revenue did Zarlor Mercenary make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zarlor Mercenary sell?

Q: How many copies did Zarlor Mercenary sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–18k

best case 125k (Sky Force Reloaded)

Games like Zarlor Mercenary

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–18k copies

≈ $28k–$95k after Steam's cut

from ~403 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sky Force Reloaded at ≈ 96k–155k copies, ≈ $263k–$706k 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 91 reviews in their first month; the range was 37 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shoot 'Em Up (6 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Top-Down + Shoot 'Em Up, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Top-Down + Top-Down Shooter + Mechs; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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 52 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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