How much revenue did Cooking Trip make?

$5k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cooking Trip sell?

Q: How many copies did Cooking Trip sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 39 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 Cooking Trip out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cooking Trip's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.7M

best case 2.0M (The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty)

Games like Cooking Trip

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–1.7M copies

≈ $5.0M–$22.6M after Steam's cut

from ~43k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 92 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 15k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Historical, priced around $10.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 38 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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