How much revenue did Ziggurat make?

$916k–$2.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ziggurat sell?

Q: How many copies did Ziggurat sell?

222k to 361k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 222k–361k; $916k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before the cut; from 4k 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 Ziggurat out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ziggurat's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 978k–1.1M

best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like Ziggurat

The middle of these games

≈ 978k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.9M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M 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 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + FPS, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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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