How much revenue did aMAZE ZER0 make?

$5k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did aMAZE ZER0 sell?

Q: How many copies did aMAZE ZER0 sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 290 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut; from 290 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 aMAZE ZER0 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including aMAZE ZER0's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–5.0M

best case 13.0M (Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition)

Games like aMAZE ZER0

A typical game among these

≈ 4.4M–5.0M copies

≈ $23.0M–$37.3M after Steam's cut

from ~128k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Beautiful (2 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: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the range was 21k to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Beautiful (2 of 8) and Horror (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Zombies, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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