How much revenue did Real Zombie War Simulator make?

$175–$472 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Real Zombie War Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Real Zombie War Simulator 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; $175–$472 after Steam's cut $319–$726 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 Real Zombie War Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Real Zombie War Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 166k–473k

best case 609k (Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator)

Games like Real Zombie War Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 166k–473k copies

≈ $467k–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Shooter (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator at ≈ 464k–755k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 786 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (4 of 8) and Action RPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Simulation, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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