How much revenue did Z.O.N.A: Origin make?

$80k–$216k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Z.O.N.A: Origin sell?

Q: How many copies did Z.O.N.A: Origin sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 589 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $80k–$216k after Steam's cut $146k–$332k before Steam's cut; from 589 reviews (Very 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 Z.O.N.A: Origin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Z.O.N.A: Origin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 918k–1.6M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Z.O.N.A: Origin

A typical game among these

≈ 918k–1.6M copies

≈ $10.2M–$15.5M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. 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 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Assassin, priced around $32.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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