How much revenue did Internet Cafe Owner make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Internet Cafe Owner sell?

Q: How many copies did Internet Cafe Owner sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut; from 160 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 Internet Cafe Owner and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Internet Cafe Owner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 541k–645k

best case 4.6M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Internet Cafe Owner

A typical game among these

≈ 541k–645k copies

≈ $4.5M–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the range was 532 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 43 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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