How much revenue did Cuisineer make?

$357k–$960k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cuisineer sell?

Q: How many copies did Cuisineer sell?

52k to 84k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–84k; $357k–$960k after Steam's cut $649k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Cuisineer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cuisineer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 759k–1.5M

best case 10.1M (Hades)

Games like Cuisineer

A typical game among these

≈ 759k–1.5M copies

≈ $2.3M–$8.4M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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: Hades at ≈ 7.7M–12.5M copies, ≈ $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 3 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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