How much revenue did Coffee Express: Barista Simulator make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Coffee Express: Barista Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Coffee Express: Barista Simulator sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 66 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 66 reviews (Mixed)

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 Coffee Express: Barista Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Coffee Express: Barista Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163–5k

best case 92k (Galaxy Burger)

Games like Coffee Express: Barista Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 163–5k copies

≈ $314–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~67 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Galaxy Burger at ≈ 70k–114k copies, ≈ $232k–$623k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 18 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 554.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (5 of 8) and Job Simulator (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cooking + Simulation, priced around $12.
The era: 7 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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