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How many copies did Zombie Shooter sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 85k–138k
$116k–$313k after Steam's cut $211k–$481k before the cut
from 1k 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 Zombie Shooter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zombie Shooter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.1M–11.3M
best case 87.5M (Left 4 Dead 2)
Games like Zombie Shooter

The middle of these games

≈ 7.1M–11.3M copies

≈ $68.7M–$145.6M after Steam's cut

from ~221k 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.

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 Zombies (6 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Survival + Co-op + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2019, 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 36 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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SteamSpy 2M–5M
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4.8x vs typical
SteamSpy 50M–100M
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