How much revenue did King of Cooking make?

$163–$438 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did King of Cooking sell?

Q: How many copies did King of Cooking sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $163–$438 after Steam's cut $296–$674 before the cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Thin evidence: 8 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 King of Cooking out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including King of Cooking's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–43k

best case 474k (Cook, Serve, Delicious!)

Games like King of Cooking

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–43k copies

≈ $65k–$185k after Steam's cut

from ~422 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cook, Serve, Delicious! at ≈ 361k–587k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 126 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 311.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cooking (7 of 8) and Time Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Time Management + Typing, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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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