How much revenue did Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story make?

$77k–$208k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 567 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $77k–$208k after Steam's cut $141k–$320k before the cut; from 567 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 245k–494k

best case 1.1M (inZOI)

Games like Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story

The middle of these games

≈ 245k–494k copies

≈ $1.3M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: inZOI at ≈ 807k–1.3M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$23.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and City Builder (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization, priced around $40.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 79 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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