How much revenue did GIBZ make?

$90k–$243k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did GIBZ sell?

Q: How many copies did GIBZ sell?

55k to 89k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–89k; $90k–$243k after Steam's cut $164k–$374k before the cut; from 2k 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 GIBZ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including GIBZ's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 201k–365k

best case 1.1M (Deadlight)

Games like GIBZ

The middle of these games

≈ 201k–365k copies

≈ $968k–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Deadlight at ≈ 807k–1.3M copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Zombies (7 of 8) and Side Scroller (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 1 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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