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Action indie game Frontline Zed launched in 2019, with development credited to richard-east and publishing to volcanic-games. Its initial price was $11.99, and Steam lists 289 reviews with a mixed rating.
Overview
Frontline Zed is a 2019 Action game developed by Richard East and published by Volcanic Games. On Steam it has gathered 289 player reviews to date. The game is available on windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer Richard East with publisher Volcanic Games 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 11,000 to 26,000 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, Frontline Zed can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
289
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
915490
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.011K to 26K
units (median: 19K)
≈ $77K to $180K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 Frontline Zed at roughly 11,000 to 26,000 copies, with a median around 19,000, derived from its 289 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $129K 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
1 observed day · window low $11.99Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-10-24 to 2026-10-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.99 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $11.99 on 2026-10-24.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Frontline Zed sold?
- indielist estimates Frontline Zed has sold between 11,271 and 26,299 units (median 18,785), derived from its 289 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Frontline Zed?
- Frontline Zed was developed by Richard East and published by Volcanic Games.
- Who published Frontline Zed?
- Frontline Zed was published by Volcanic Games, developed by Richard East. See Volcanic Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Frontline Zed released?
- Frontline Zed was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Frontline Zed have on Steam?
- Frontline Zed has 289 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Frontline Zed can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Richard East's other releases and Volcanic Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Frontline Zed 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 Frontline Zed 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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