How much revenue did Cook, Serve, Delicious! make?

$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cook, Serve, Delicious! sell?

Q: How many copies did Cook, Serve, Delicious! sell?

361k to 587k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 361k–587k; $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before the cut; from 6k 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, Serve, Delicious! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cook, Serve, Delicious!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 210k–630k

best case 880k (Turmoil)

Games like Cook, Serve, Delicious!

The middle of these games

≈ 210k–630k copies

≈ $844k–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Turmoil at ≈ 670k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Mining, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 52 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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