How much revenue did ZomDay make?

$57k–$152k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ZomDay sell?

Q: How many copies did ZomDay sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 832 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before Steam's cut; from 832 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 ZomDay and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ZomDay's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–711k

best case 5.8M (Resident Evil 7 Biohazard)

Games like ZomDay

A typical game among these

≈ 138k–711k copies

≈ $1.1M–$7.8M 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: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies, ≈ $24.1M–$64.9M 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 619 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Zombies (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 17x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut $43.9M–$99.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy 2016	Est. copies ≈ 387k–629k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	9k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionVR
Hellsplit: Arena 2019	Est. copies ≈ 114k–185k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $783k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
Propagation VR 2020	Est. copies ≈ 146k–238k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners 2020	Est. copies ≈ 251k–407k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	VRZombies
Pavlov 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.6M 5.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	41k reviews Very Positive	VRShooter
After the Fall® 2021	Est. copies ≈ 78k–126k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $428k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $777k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	VRCo-op
SURV1V3 2021	Est. copies ≈ 45k–72k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $306k–$823k after Steam's cut $556k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	VRZombies