How much revenue did Zanki Zero: Last Beginning make?

$330k–$887k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zanki Zero: Last Beginning sell?

Q: How many copies did Zanki Zero: Last Beginning sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 694 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $330k–$887k after Steam's cut $600k–$1.4M before the cut; from 694 reviews (Mostly 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 Zanki Zero: Last Beginning out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zanki Zero: Last Beginning's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 56k–86k

best case 623k (Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale)

Games like Zanki Zero: Last Beginning

The middle of these games

≈ 56k–86k copies

≈ $490k–$806k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale at ≈ 475k–771k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (8 of 8) and JRPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Capitalism + Anime, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Capitalism + Indie + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2018, 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 38 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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