How much revenue did Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition make?

$13.5M–$36.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition sell?

9.8M to 16.0M copies, based on its 155k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9.8M–16.0M; $13.5M–$36.2M after Steam's cut $24.5M–$55.8M before the cut; from 155k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 214k–945k

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 214k–945k copies

≈ $1.3M–$10.9M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut.

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 320 to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Zombies (6 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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