How much revenue did Restaurant at the end of time make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Restaurant at the end of time sell?

Q: How many copies did Restaurant at the end of time sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before Steam's cut; from 10 reviews (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 Restaurant at the end of time and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Restaurant at the end of time's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 101k–401k

best case 883k (Turmoil)

Games like Restaurant at the end of time

A typical game among these

≈ 101k–401k copies

≈ $745k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Turmoil at ≈ 673k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 101 reviews in their first month; the range was 30 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (7 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Mining, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 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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