How much revenue did FatalZone make?

$109k–$292k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FatalZone sell?

Q: How many copies did FatalZone sell?

56k to 92k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–92k; $109k–$292k after Steam's cut $197k–$449k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 FatalZone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FatalZone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 88k–1.7M

best case 3.9M (Brotato)

Games like FatalZone

A typical game among these

≈ 88k–1.7M copies

≈ $250k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Brotato at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 409 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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