How much revenue did Bone's Cafe make?

$37k–$100k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bone's Cafe sell?

Q: How many copies did Bone's Cafe sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 365 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $37k–$100k after Steam's cut $68k–$154k before the cut; from 365 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 Bone's Cafe out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bone's Cafe's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–17k

best case 35k (Automachef)

Games like Bone's Cafe

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–17k copies

≈ $15k–$74k after Steam's cut

from ~313 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Automachef at ≈ 27k–43k copies, ≈ $128k–$343k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 79 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 33 to 436.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Automation, priced around $17.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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