How much revenue did Cook-Out make?

$40k–$107k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cook-Out sell?

Q: How many copies did Cook-Out sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 293 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $40k–$107k after Steam's cut $73k–$165k before the cut; from 293 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-Out out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cook-Out's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.1M–10.5M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Cook-Out

The middle of these games

≈ 5.1M–10.5M copies

≈ $44.0M–$79.2M after Steam's cut

from ~158k 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.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 41k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (6 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Vehicular Combat + Combat + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 1 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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