How much revenue did Zanki Zero: Last Beginning make?

$332k–$892k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zanki Zero: Last Beginning sell?

Q: How many copies did Zanki Zero: Last Beginning sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 698 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $332k–$892k after Steam's cut $603k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 698 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 Zanki Zero: Last Beginning and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zanki Zero: Last Beginning's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 56k–86k

best case 625k (Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale)

Games like Zanki Zero: Last Beginning

A typical game among these

≈ 56k–86k copies

≈ $490k–$808k 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale at ≈ 476k–774k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (8 of 8) and JRPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Capitalism + Anime, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Capitalism + Indie + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2018, and none of them 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 38 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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