How much revenue did Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! make?

$314k–$845k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! sell?

Q: How many copies did Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $314k–$845k after Steam's cut $571k–$1.3M before the cut; from 2k 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 Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–2.5M

best case 5.4M (Oxygen Not Included)

Games like Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–2.5M copies

≈ $22.2M–$23.5M after Steam's cut

from ~47k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Oxygen Not Included at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $28.4M–$76.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Colony Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Survival + Resource Management + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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