How much revenue did Zet Zillions make?

$53k–$143k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zet Zillions sell?

Q: How many copies did Zet Zillions sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 778 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $53k–$143k after Steam's cut $96k–$219k before the cut; from 778 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 Zet Zillions out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zet Zillions's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–59k

best case 142k (Cobalt Core)

Games like Zet Zillions

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–59k copies

≈ $27k–$376k after Steam's cut

from ~325 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cobalt Core at ≈ 108k–176k copies, ≈ $596k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 123 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 23 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Roguelike Deckbuilder (8 of 8) and Deckbuilding (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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