How much revenue did Cookie Store make?

$573–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cookie Store sell?

Q: How many copies did Cookie Store sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $573–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut; from 12 reviews (Mixed)

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 Cookie Store out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cookie Store's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 371k–504k

best case 1.2M (Senren＊Banka)

Games like Cookie Store

The middle of these games

≈ 371k–504k copies

≈ $1.3M–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Senren＊Banka at ≈ 920k–1.5M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$23.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 922 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dating Sim (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Visual Novel, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 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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