How much revenue did Cooking Simulator make?

$3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cooking Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Cooking Simulator sell?

568k to 923k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 568k–923k; $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 Cooking Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cooking Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.0M–26.4M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Cooking Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 7.0M–26.4M copies

≈ $53.9M–$278.2M after Steam's cut

from ~235k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Realistic (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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