How much revenue did Zone 6 make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zone 6 sell?

Q: How many copies did Zone 6 sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 18 reviews (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 Zone 6 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zone 6's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–402k

best case 4.9M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like Zone 6

The middle of these games

≈ 131k–402k copies

≈ $671k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.1M copies, ≈ $41.3M–$111.1M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 565 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Detective (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Isometric + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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