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How big is Zenith: Nexus?

Estimated owners
≈ 112k–181k
from 5k 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 Zenith: Nexus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zenith: Nexus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–1.2M
best case 12.1M (VRChat)
Games like Zenith: Nexus

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–1.2M copies

from ~738 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: VRChat at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 31 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 117.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on VR (7 of 8) and MMORPG (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Anime.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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