How much revenue did Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ make?

$3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ sell?

466k to 758k copies, based on its 19k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 466k–758k; $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before the cut; from 19k 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 Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.7M–5.8M

best case 8.1M (Z1 Battle Royale)

Games like Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™

The middle of these games

≈ 5.7M–5.8M copies

≈ $32.7M–$44.3M after Steam's cut

from ~70k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Z1 Battle Royale at ≈ 6.2M–10.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 26k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Zombies (6 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared 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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Resident Evil 5 2009	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–6.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $23.4M–$62.8M after Steam's cut $42.5M–$96.7M before the cut	$19.99	67k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction
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Resident Evil 6 2013	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.7M–$66.3M after Steam's cut $44.8M–$102.0M before the cut	$19.99	71k reviews Mostly Positive	ZombiesAction
Resident Evil 3 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.2M–$92.0M after Steam's cut $62.2M–$141.5M before the cut	$39.99	125k reviews Very Positive	ActionZombies
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The Last of Us™ Part I 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $44.3M–$119.2M after Steam's cut $80.6M–$183.3M before the cut	$59.99	108k reviews Very Positive	Story RichPost-apocalyptic