How much revenue did Cook, Serve, Delicious! make?

$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cook, Serve, Delicious! sell?

Q: How many copies did Cook, Serve, Delicious! sell?

361k to 587k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 361k–587k; $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Very 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 Cook, Serve, Delicious! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cook, Serve, Delicious!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 211k–631k

best case 883k (Turmoil)

Games like Cook, Serve, Delicious!

A typical game among these

≈ 211k–631k copies

≈ $846k–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

6 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

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Mining, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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The Chef's Shift 2025	Est. copies ≈ 52k–84k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $184k–$496k after Steam's cut $335k–$763k before Steam's cut	$12.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CookingTyping
Papa's Freezeria Deluxe 2023	Est. copies ≈ 331k–538k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $546k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $992k–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$5.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CookingTime Management
Turmoil 2016	Est. copies ≈ 673k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$9.9M before Steam's cut	$12.99	16k reviews Very Positive	ManagementMining
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MVorpheus "Content Organizer" 2020	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3 reviews 3 user reviews	CasualChoose Your Own Adventure
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