How much revenue did Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! make?

$315k–$847k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! sell?

Q: How many copies did Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $315k–$847k after Steam's cut $573k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–2.5M

best case 5.4M (Oxygen Not Included)

Games like Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–2.5M copies

≈ $22.3M–$23.6M after Steam's cut

from ~47k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Oxygen Not Included at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $28.5M–$76.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (6 of 8) and Colony Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Survival + Resource Management + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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They Are Billions 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	52k reviews Very Positive	Base-BuildingColony Sim
Lobotomy Corporation \| Monster Management Simulation 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.2M after Steam's cut $21.8M–$49.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	57k reviews Very Positive	ManagementDifficult
Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.5M–$76.7M after Steam's cut $51.9M–$118.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
This War of Mine 2014	Est. copies ≈ 5.5M–8.9M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.1M–$81.0M after Steam's cut $54.8M–$124.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	98k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalWar
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	138k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
Barotrauma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's cut $39.1M–$88.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	90k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
F1® 2020 2020	Est. copies ≈ 990k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	40k reviews Very Positive	RacingSimulation
Banished 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.3M–$35.9M after Steam's cut $24.3M–$55.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	43k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Colony Sim