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Action indie game ZED ZONE launched in 2023 from developer leven-liu and publisher indiecn. On Steam it has 3,568 reviews with 80% positive, a mostly positive signal that can support an underrated angle at its $11.99 initial price.
Overview
ZED ZONE is a 2023 Action game developed by Leven Liu and published by INDIECN. On Steam it has gathered 3,446 player reviews, 80% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer Leven Liu with publisher INDIECN is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 103,000 to 241,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, ZED ZONE can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,446
Positive
80%
Steam appid
1211600
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0103K to 241K
units (median: 172K)
≈ $708K to $1.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 50 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for ZED ZONE at roughly 103,000 to 241,000 copies, with a median around 172,000, derived from its 3,446 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
9 observed days · window low $8.39Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.39 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $8.39 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 04:48 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndieRPGSimulationEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has ZED ZONE sold?
- indielist estimates ZED ZONE has sold between 103,380 and 241,220 units (median 172,300), derived from its 3,446 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed ZED ZONE?
- ZED ZONE was developed by Leven Liu and published by INDIECN.
- Who published ZED ZONE?
- ZED ZONE was published by INDIECN, developed by Leven Liu. See INDIECN's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was ZED ZONE released?
- ZED ZONE was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does ZED ZONE have on Steam?
- ZED ZONE has 3,446 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
- Is ZED ZONE worth playing?
- Steam players rate ZED ZONE 80% positive across 3,446 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like ZED ZONE can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Leven Liu's other releases and INDIECN's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where ZED ZONE sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same ZED ZONE page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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