How much revenue did Z Dawn make?

$23k–$62k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Z Dawn sell?

Q: How many copies did Z Dawn sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 290 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $23k–$62k after Steam's cut $42k–$95k before the cut; from 290 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 Z Dawn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Z Dawn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–162k

best case 397k (NEO Scavenger)

Games like Z Dawn

The middle of these games

≈ 14k–162k copies

≈ $108k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: NEO Scavenger at ≈ 303k–492k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 388 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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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