How much revenue did Recipe for Disaster make?

$75k–$200k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Recipe for Disaster sell?

Q: How many copies did Recipe for Disaster sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 729 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $75k–$200k after Steam's cut $136k–$308k before Steam's cut; from 729 reviews (Mostly 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 Recipe for Disaster and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Recipe for Disaster's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 328k–660k

best case 886k (PlateUp!)

Games like Recipe for Disaster

A typical game among these

≈ 328k–660k copies

≈ $930k–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: PlateUp! at ≈ 675k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut.

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 1k to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cooking (3 of 3) and Management (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game 2023	Est. copies ≈ 168k–274k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $463k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $841k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	FunnyManagement
Papa's Freezeria Deluxe 2023	Est. copies ≈ 331k–538k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $546k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $992k–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$5.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CookingTime Management
PlateUp! 2022	Est. copies ≈ 675k–1.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Co-op Management