How much revenue did Zarlor Mercenary make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zarlor Mercenary sell?

Q: How many copies did Zarlor Mercenary sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–18k

best case 125k (Sky Force Reloaded)

Games like Zarlor Mercenary

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–18k copies

≈ $28k–$93k after Steam's cut

from ~398 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sky Force Reloaded at ≈ 95k–154k copies, ≈ $261k–$702k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 91 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 37 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shoot 'Em Up (6 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Top-Down + Shoot 'Em Up, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Top-Down + Top-Down Shooter + Mechs; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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 52 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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