How much revenue did Zelter make?

$269k–$723k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zelter sell?

Q: How many copies did Zelter sell?

49k to 80k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–80k; $269k–$723k after Steam's cut $489k–$1.1M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mixed)

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 Zelter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zelter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–509k

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Zelter

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–509k copies

≈ $14k–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 345 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (7 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 70 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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