How much revenue did The Chef's Shift make?

$184k–$496k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Chef's Shift sell?

Q: How many copies did The Chef's Shift 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; $184k–$496k after Steam's cut $335k–$763k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Chef's Shift and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Chef's Shift's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196k–445k

best case 1.1M (Touhou Mystia's Izakaya)

Games like The Chef's Shift

A typical game among these

≈ 196k–445k copies

≈ $565k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Touhou Mystia's Izakaya at ≈ 815k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 252 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cooking (7 of 8) and Management (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Time Management, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2026, and 2 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 79 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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