How much revenue did Zolg make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zolg sell?

Q: How many copies did Zolg sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 226 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 226 reviews (Mostly 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 Zolg and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zolg's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–5.7M

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like Zolg

A typical game among these

≈ 3.3M–5.7M copies

≈ $34.9M–$78.9M after Steam's cut

from ~147k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.1M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.6M–$149.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 26 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 23k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (4 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Souls-like, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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