How much revenue did Diner Bros make?

$75k–$201k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Diner Bros sell?

Q: How many copies did Diner Bros sell?

27k to 44k copies, based on its 896 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–44k; $75k–$201k after Steam's cut $136k–$310k before the cut; from 896 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 Diner Bros out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Diner Bros's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–17k

best case 65k (The Chef's Shift)

Games like Diner Bros

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–17k copies

≈ $44k–$92k after Steam's cut

from ~356 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: The Chef's Shift at ≈ 50k–81k copies, ≈ $177k–$477k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 203 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 48 to 311.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cooking (6 of 8) and Time Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cooking + Typing, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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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