How much revenue did Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse make?

$360k–$968k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse sell?

Q: How many copies did Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse sell?

65k to 106k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 65k–106k; $360k–$968k after Steam's cut $655k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–126k

best case 219k (Zombie Night Terror)

Games like Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

A typical game among these

≈ 31k–126k copies

≈ $94k–$311k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Zombies (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: Zombie Night Terror at ≈ 167k–271k copies, ≈ $597k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Zombies (4 of 8) and Villain Protagonist (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Puzzle, priced around $13.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 36 for the most recent game here to about 70 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
I, Zombie 2014	Est. copies ≈ 147k–239k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $81k–$217k after Steam's cut $146k–$333k before Steam's cut	$1.99	3k reviews Very Positive	StealthTop-Down
John, The Zombie 2017	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$88k before Steam's cut	$9.99	224 reviews Mixed	ActionSimulation
Undead Horde 2019	Est. copies ≈ 40k–65k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $188k–$505k after Steam's cut $342k–$778k before Steam's cut	$16.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Villain ProtagonistRPG
Professor Teaches Windows 10 2015	Est. copies ≈ 293–476 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$14.99	6 reviews 6 user reviews	IlluminatiSurvival Horror
Zombie Night Terror 2016	Est. copies ≈ 167k–271k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $597k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$12.99	4k reviews Very Positive	ZombiesStrategy
Infectonator 3: Apocalypse 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42k–68k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $149k–$401k after Steam's cut $271k–$617k before Steam's cut	$12.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Outbreak SimIndie
Super 3-D Noah's Ark 2015	Est. copies ≈ 45k–72k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $122k–$329k after Steam's cut $223k–$506k before Steam's cut	$9.99	913 reviews Very Positive	FPSAction
Goblin and Coins 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$1.99	108 reviews Very Positive	Side Scroller2D Platformer