How much revenue did Cook Serve Forever make?

$98k–$263k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cook Serve Forever sell?

Q: How many copies did Cook Serve Forever sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 478 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $98k–$263k after Steam's cut $178k–$404k before Steam's cut; from 478 reviews (Mixed)

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 Cook Serve Forever and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cook Serve Forever's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 879–77k

best case 241k (Potionomics)

Games like Cook Serve Forever

A typical game among these

≈ 879–77k copies

≈ $10k–$591k after Steam's cut

from ~241 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Potionomics at ≈ 184k–299k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 43 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Time Management (5 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Deckbuilding + Dating Sim, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 1 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 43 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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