How much revenue did Zup! 5 make?

$57k–$152k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zup! 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did Zup! 5 sell?

104k to 168k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 104k–168k; $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before the cut; from 3k 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 Zup! 5 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zup! 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.8M–5.4M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like Zup! 5

The middle of these games

≈ 3.8M–5.4M copies

≈ $22.2M–$25.7M after Steam's cut

from ~80k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Platformer (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (3 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Zombies, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Physics + Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, 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 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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GRIS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before the cut	$14.99	96k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
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Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut $94.2M–$214.2M before the cut	$19.99	226k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
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