How much revenue did Shokudo Underworld make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shokudo Underworld sell?

Q: How many copies did Shokudo Underworld sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 277 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before the cut; from 277 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 Shokudo Underworld out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shokudo Underworld's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 480–20k

best case 127k (Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe)

Games like Shokudo Underworld

The middle of these games

≈ 480–20k copies

≈ $2k–$181k after Steam's cut

from ~63 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Cooking (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe at ≈ 97k–157k copies, ≈ $532k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 40 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 949.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cooking (4 of 8) and Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cooking + Female Protagonist, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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 43 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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