How much revenue did Guns n Zombies make?

$120k–$323k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Guns n Zombies sell?

Q: How many copies did Guns n Zombies sell?

55k to 89k copies, based on its 976 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–89k; $120k–$323k after Steam's cut $218k–$497k before the cut; from 976 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 Guns n Zombies out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guns n Zombies's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–300k

best case 87.5M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Guns n Zombies

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–300k copies

≈ $119k–$235k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 66.7M–108.4M copies, ≈ $183.2M–$492.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (7 of 8) and Zombies (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry FPS + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, and 1 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 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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