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How many copies did Internet Cafe Simulator 2 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 328k–533k
$1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.5M before Steam's cut
from 13k 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 Internet Cafe Simulator 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Internet Cafe Simulator 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–3.4M
best case 4.5M (House Flipper)
Games like Internet Cafe Simulator 2

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–3.4M copies

≈ $22.2M–$45.0M after Steam's cut

from ~92k 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.

Best case: House Flipper at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $23.4M–$63.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 26k reviews in their first month; the range was 14k to 69k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Management (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Design & Illustration, priced around $25.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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