How much revenue did Bees vs Zombees make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bees vs Zombees sell?

Q: How many copies did Bees vs Zombees sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 107 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before Steam's cut; from 107 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 Bees vs Zombees and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bees vs Zombees's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–107k

best case 175k (Necrosmith)

Games like Bees vs Zombees

A typical game among these

≈ 21k–107k copies

≈ $90k–$228k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Necrosmith at ≈ 133k–216k copies, ≈ $109k–$294k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 576 reviews in their first month; the range was 133 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Action Roguelike, priced around $3.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 61 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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