How much revenue did Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator make?

$766k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator sell?

70k to 113k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–113k; $766k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–92k

best case 408k (Hello Kitty Island Adventure)

Games like Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 57k–92k copies

≈ $195k–$574k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: Hello Kitty Island Adventure at ≈ 311k–505k copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 317 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cooking (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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