How much revenue did Maid Cafe on Electric Street make?

$96k–$258k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Maid Cafe on Electric Street sell?

Q: How many copies did Maid Cafe on Electric Street sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 742 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $96k–$258k after Steam's cut $175k–$398k before Steam's cut; from 742 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 Maid Cafe on Electric Street and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maid Cafe on Electric Street's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–161k

best case 668k (Her Story)

Games like Maid Cafe on Electric Street

A typical game among these

≈ 57k–161k copies

≈ $281k–$800k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Her Story at ≈ 509k–827k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 527 reviews in their first month; the range was 36 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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