How much revenue did Return Of The Zombie King make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return Of The Zombie King sell?

Q: How many copies did Return Of The Zombie King sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 76 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 76 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Return Of The Zombie King out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return Of The Zombie King's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 97k–257k

best case 262k (Melody's Escape)

Games like Return Of The Zombie King

The middle of these games

≈ 97k–257k copies

≈ $282k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Melody's Escape at ≈ 200k–325k copies, ≈ $549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 435 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Runner (8 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music-Based Procedural Generation + Rhythm, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2022, 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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Melody's Escape 2016	Est. copies ≈ 200k–325k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $998k–$2.3M before the cut	$9.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Music-Based Procedural GenerationRhythm
Super Meat Boy Forever 2022	Est. copies ≈ 54k–88k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $135k–$307k before the cut	$4.99	2k reviews Mixed	IndieAction
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