How much revenue did Restaurant Manager make?

$273–$735 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Restaurant Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Restaurant Manager sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $273–$735 after Steam's cut $496–$1k before Steam's cut; from 33 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Restaurant Manager and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Restaurant Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–48k

best case 104k (Game of Thrones Winter is Coming)

Games like Restaurant Manager

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–48k copies

≈ $41k–$106k after Steam's cut

from ~454 reviews

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

2 of the 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Game of Thrones Winter is Coming at ≈ 80k–129k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 62 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 302.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 7) and City Builder (6 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Fantasy.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Citadels 2013	Est. copies ≈ 31k–51k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $129k–$346k after Steam's cut $234k–$532k before Steam's cut	$14.99	494 reviews Very Negative	StrategyAction
Game of Thrones Winter is Coming 2019	Est. copies ≈ 80k–129k 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayStrategy
Real estate tycoon 2022	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $34k–$91k after Steam's cut $62k–$141k before Steam's cut	$10.99	454 reviews Mixed	City Builder Simulation
Zoo 2: Animal Park 2020	Est. copies ≈ 42k–68k 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualBuilding
Dwarrows 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$113k before Steam's cut	$29.99	133 reviews Mostly Positive	3D PlatformerCity Builder
Novastella Island 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	327 reviews Mixed	Early AccessBuilding
Sebil Engineering 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before Steam's cut	$11.99	96 reviews Very Positive	3D PlatformerEducation