How much revenue did Bone's Cafe make?

$38k–$101k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bone's Cafe sell?

Q: How many copies did Bone's Cafe sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 367 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $38k–$101k after Steam's cut $68k–$155k before Steam's cut; from 367 reviews (Very 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 Bone's Cafe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bone's Cafe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–17k

best case 35k (Automachef)

Games like Bone's Cafe

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–17k copies

≈ $15k–$75k after Steam's cut

from ~314 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Automachef at ≈ 27k–43k copies, ≈ $110k–$295k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 79 reviews in their first month; the range was 33 to 436.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Automation, priced around $15.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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