How much revenue did Yakiniku simulator make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yakiniku simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Yakiniku simulator sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 443 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before the cut; from 443 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 Yakiniku simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yakiniku simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–265k

best case 803k (Disney Dreamlight Valley)

Games like Yakiniku simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 149k–265k copies

≈ $907k–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Disney Dreamlight Valley at ≈ 612k–994k copies, ≈ $6.7M–$18.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization, priced around $40.
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 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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