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How big is Infestation: The New Z?

Estimated owners
≈ 1.4M–2.3M
from 34k reviews (Mixed)

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 Infestation: The New Z out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Infestation: The New Z's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.3M–14.2M
best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)
Games like Infestation: The New Z

The middle of these games

≈ 6.3M–14.2M copies

≈ $76.3M–$101.9M after Steam's cut

from ~202k 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 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 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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