How much revenue did The Zodiac Trial make?

$15k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Zodiac Trial sell?

Q: How many copies did The Zodiac Trial sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 151 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $15k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before the cut; from 151 reviews (Very 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 The Zodiac Trial out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Zodiac Trial's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 221k–766k

best case 1.5M (The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series)

Games like The Zodiac Trial

The middle of these games

≈ 221k–766k copies

≈ $689k–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $16.0M–$42.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 332 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $50.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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