How much revenue did Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe make?

$152k–$410k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe sell?

Q: How many copies did Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe sell?

93k to 150k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 93k–150k; $152k–$410k after Steam's cut $277k–$631k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63.2M–85.0M

best case 105.1M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe

A typical game among these

≈ 63.2M–85.0M copies

≈ $368.2M–$505.3M after Steam's cut

from ~995k 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 5 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Garry's Mod at ≈ 80.0M–130.1M copies, ≈ $219.9M–$591.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (3 of 5) and Moddable (2 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2018, and none of them 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 38 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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War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
Stardew Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 43.5M–70.7M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut $326.2M–$742.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Farming SimPixel Graphics
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 80.0M–130.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.9M–$591.3M after Steam's cut $399.8M–$909.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
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