How much revenue did ZSG make?

$41–$110 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ZSG sell?

Q: How many copies did ZSG sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 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 ZSG and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ZSG's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 912–3k

best case 1.2M (Quake Live)

Games like ZSG

A typical game among these

≈ 912–3k copies

≈ $262–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~38 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Quake Live at ≈ 890k–1.4M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M 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 17 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 67.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arena Shooter (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Arena Shooter, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Classic + Fast-Paced; a typical game here doesn't.
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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