How much revenue did Zombie Derby make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zombie Derby sell?

Q: How many copies did Zombie Derby sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 150 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before the cut; from 150 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 Zombie Derby out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zombie Derby's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 447k–617k

best case 901k (Need for Speed™ Most Wanted)

Games like Zombie Derby

The middle of these games

≈ 447k–617k copies

≈ $3.1M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Need for Speed™ Most Wanted at ≈ 687k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 779 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 736 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (8 of 8) and Automobile Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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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