How much revenue did The Chef's Shift make?

$182k–$490k 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?

51k to 83k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 51k–83k; $182k–$490k after Steam's cut $331k–$753k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Chef's Shift out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Chef's Shift's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 195k–443k

best case 1.1M (Touhou Mystia's Izakaya)

Games like The Chef's Shift

The middle of these games

≈ 195k–443k copies

≈ $564k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Touhou Mystia's Izakaya at ≈ 813k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cooking (7 of 8) and Management (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Time Management, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2026, and 2 of your 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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