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 Steam's cut; from 12 reviews (Mixed)

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 Cookie Store and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cookie Store's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 372k–504k

best case 1.2M (Senren＊Banka)

Games like Cookie Store

A typical game among these

≈ 372k–504k copies

≈ $1.3M–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Senren＊Banka at ≈ 923k–1.5M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$23.9M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 922 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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Hatoful Boyfriend 2014	Est. copies ≈ 425k–690k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelDating Sim
Senren＊Banka 2020	Est. copies ≈ 923k–1.5M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.9M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	37k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelNSFW
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