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How many copies did Gaming Cafe Life sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–6k
$6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before the cut
from 153 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 Gaming Cafe Life out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gaming Cafe Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 411k–702k
best case 966k (IdleOn - The Incremental MMO)
Games like Gaming Cafe Life

The middle of these games

≈ 411k–702k copies

≈ $4.1M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: IdleOn - The Incremental MMO at ≈ 736k–1.2M copies.

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 796 to 26k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Management (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Idler + MMORPG.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Big Ambitions
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Parkitect
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