How much revenue did 69 Ways to Kill a Zombie make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 69 Ways to Kill a Zombie sell?

Q: How many copies did 69 Ways to Kill a Zombie sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 140 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut; from 140 reviews (Mixed)

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 69 Ways to Kill a Zombie and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 69 Ways to Kill a Zombie's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–1.3M

best case 3.4M (Half-Life: Alyx)

Games like 69 Ways to Kill a Zombie

A typical game among these

≈ 138k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.2M–$9.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Half-Life: Alyx at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies, ≈ $43.2M–$116.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 967 reviews in their first month; the range was 600 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (7 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + FPS, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2004 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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