How much revenue did The Zombie Wave make?

$54–$146 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Zombie Wave sell?

Q: How many copies did The Zombie Wave sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $54–$146 after Steam's cut $99–$224 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 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 The Zombie Wave out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Zombie Wave's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293–863

best case 813.7M (Counter-Strike 2)

Games like The Zombie Wave

The middle of these games

≈ 293–863 copies

≈ $1k–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~9 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 620.0M–1007.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 177.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Competitive + Team-Based + e-sports; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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