How much revenue did Internet Cafe Simulator make?

$819k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Internet Cafe Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Internet Cafe Simulator sell?

298k to 484k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298k–484k; $819k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut; from 10k reviews (Mostly 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 Internet Cafe Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Internet Cafe Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.5M–8.7M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Internet Cafe Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 5.5M–8.7M copies

≈ $53.6M–$92.9M after Steam's cut

from ~162k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Survival (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (4 of 8) and Base-Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Driving + Transportation + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.4M–96.6M 5.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut $594.0M–$1351.4M before the cut	$19.99	940k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.4M–$92.6M after Steam's cut $62.6M–$142.4M before the cut	$29.99	137k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.5M–$76.5M after Steam's cut $51.7M–$117.7M before the cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Factorio 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.8M–9.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $56.0M–$150.4M after Steam's cut $101.7M–$231.4M before the cut	$35.00	234k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AutomationBase-Building
DAVE THE DIVER 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.4M after Steam's cut $40.2M–$91.5M before the cut	$19.99	162k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsCasual
RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.2M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $72.0M–$193.5M after Steam's cut $130.8M–$297.7M before the cut	$34.99	246k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Slime Rancher 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut $54.0M–$122.9M before the cut	$19.99	157k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CuteExploration
American Truck Simulator 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $44.8M–$120.4M after Steam's cut $81.4M–$185.2M before the cut	$19.99	196k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Automobile SimDriving