How much revenue did Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape make?

Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape sell?

129k to 210k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 129k–210k; from 4k reviews (Mixed)

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 Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37.5M–97.4M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape

A typical game among these

≈ 37.5M–97.4M copies

≈ $255.8M–$363.3M after Steam's cut

from ~802k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (7 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, 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 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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Don't Starve Together 2016	Est. copies ≈ 22.6M–36.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $93.2M–$250.7M after Steam's cut $169.5M–$385.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	544k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
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ZaBaTa! 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	42 reviews Mostly Positive	CasualIndie
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