How much revenue did ZOMBETES make?

$170–$459 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ZOMBETES sell?

Q: How many copies did ZOMBETES sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $170–$459 after Steam's cut $309–$706 before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 ZOMBETES out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ZOMBETES's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 402k–711k

best case 605k (Infection Free Zone)

Games like ZOMBETES

The middle of these games

≈ 402k–711k copies

≈ $1.7M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Management (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Infection Free Zone at ≈ 461k–749k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (4 of 8) and Survival (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2013	Est. copies ≈ 361k–587k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before the cut	$12.99	6k reviews Very Positive	IndieTime Management
Amnesia: The Bunker 2023	Est. copies ≈ 311k–506k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before the cut	$24.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Infection Free Zone 2024	Est. copies ≈ 461k–749k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before the cut	$24.99	19k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessBase-Building
Mr. Prepper 2021	Est. copies ≈ 135k–220k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $744k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before the cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Survival Simulation
Turmoil 2016	Est. copies ≈ 671k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$9.9M before the cut	$12.99	16k reviews Very Positive	ManagementMining
Freestyle 2: Street Basketball 2015	Est. copies ≈ 622k–1.0M SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	13k reviews Mostly Positive	BasketballSports
DEAD RISING® 2016	Est. copies ≈ 302k–491k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $829k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	ZombiesAction
From The Rain 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $877–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut	$2.99	43 reviews Positive	ActionHorror