How much revenue did Maid Cafe on Electric Street make?

$95k–$255k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Maid Cafe on Electric Street sell?

Q: How many copies did Maid Cafe on Electric Street sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 731 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $95k–$255k after Steam's cut $172k–$392k before the cut; from 731 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 Maid Cafe on Electric Street out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maid Cafe on Electric Street's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 56k–160k

best case 666k (Her Story)

Games like Maid Cafe on Electric Street

The middle of these games

≈ 56k–160k copies

≈ $278k–$793k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Her Story at ≈ 507k–824k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 529 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 36 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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