How much revenue did Mealmates make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mealmates sell?

Q: How many copies did Mealmates sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut; from 23 reviews (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 Mealmates out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mealmates's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 342–4k

best case 2.3M (Pummel Party)

Games like Mealmates

The middle of these games

≈ 342–4k copies

≈ $1k–$32k after Steam's cut

from ~14 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Pummel Party at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $7.2M–$19.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 7.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Minigames (6 of 8) and 4 Player Local (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Board Game, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, 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 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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Shell Corp 2020	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $525–$1k after Steam's cut $954–$2k before the cut	$6.99	11 reviews Positive	Local MultiplayerFunny
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