How much revenue did Recipe for Disaster make?

$74k–$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 727 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $74k–$200k after Steam's cut $135k–$307k before the cut; from 727 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 Recipe for Disaster out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Recipe for Disaster's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 327k–658k

best case 883k (PlateUp!)

Games like Recipe for Disaster

The middle of these games

≈ 327k–658k copies

≈ $926k–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: PlateUp! at ≈ 673k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut.

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 1k to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cooking (3 of 3) and Management (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Management, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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–272k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $461k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $837k–$1.9M before the cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	FunnyManagement
Papa's Freezeria Deluxe 2023	Est. copies ≈ 330k–536k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $543k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $988k–$2.2M before the cut	$5.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CookingTime Management
PlateUp! 2022	Est. copies ≈ 673k–1.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.3M before the cut	$19.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Co-op Management