How much revenue did Restaurant Manager make?

$273–$735 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Restaurant Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Restaurant Manager sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $273–$735 after Steam's cut $496–$1k before the cut; from 33 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Restaurant Manager out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Restaurant Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–48k

best case 104k (Game of Thrones Winter is Coming)

Games like Restaurant Manager

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–48k copies

≈ $42k–$106k after Steam's cut

from ~454 reviews

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

2 of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Game of Thrones Winter is Coming at ≈ 79k–129k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 62 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27 to 302.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 7) and City Builder (6 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Fantasy.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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Citadels 2013	Est. copies ≈ 31k–51k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $128k–$345k after Steam's cut $233k–$530k before the cut	$14.99	492 reviews Very Negative	StrategyAction
Game of Thrones Winter is Coming 2019	Est. copies ≈ 79k–129k 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayStrategy
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Zoo 2: Animal Park 2020	Est. copies ≈ 42k–68k 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualBuilding
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Novastella Island 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	328 reviews Mixed	Early AccessBuilding
Sebil Engineering 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before the cut	$11.99	96 reviews Very Positive	3D PlatformerEducation