How much revenue did PlateUp! make?

$3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PlateUp! sell?

Q: How many copies did PlateUp! sell?

670k to 1.1M copies, based on its 27k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670k–1.1M; $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.2M before the cut; from 27k 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 PlateUp! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PlateUp!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 202k–371k

best case 744k (Cooking Simulator)

Games like PlateUp!

The middle of these games

≈ 202k–371k copies

≈ $1.7M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Cooking Simulator at ≈ 567k–921k copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cooking (6 of 8) and Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Cooking, priced around $20.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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