How much revenue did Cooking Simulator make?

$3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cooking Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Cooking Simulator sell?

567k to 921k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 567k–921k; $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before the cut; from 20k 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 Cooking Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cooking Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.9M–26.1M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Cooking Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 6.9M–26.1M copies

≈ $53.6M–$277.1M after Steam's cut

from ~234k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Realistic (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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