How much revenue did Space Pirates And Zombies 2 make?

$537k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Space Pirates And Zombies 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Space Pirates And Zombies 2 sell?

98k to 159k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 98k–159k; $537k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $977k–$2.2M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Space Pirates And Zombies 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Space Pirates And Zombies 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.9M–7.6M

best case 38.7M (Portal 2)

Games like Space Pirates And Zombies 2

The middle of these games

≈ 4.9M–7.6M copies

≈ $33.4M–$93.0M after Steam's cut

from ~91k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–47.9M copies, ≈ $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2019, and none of them 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 36 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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