How much revenue did Diner Bros make?

$75k–$201k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Diner Bros sell?

Q: How many copies did Diner Bros sell?

27k to 44k copies, based on its 897 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–44k; $75k–$201k after Steam's cut $136k–$310k before Steam's cut; from 897 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 Diner Bros and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Diner Bros's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–18k

best case 68k (The Chef's Shift)

Games like Diner Bros

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–18k copies

≈ $44k–$93k after Steam's cut

from ~357 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: The Chef's Shift at ≈ 52k–84k copies, ≈ $184k–$496k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 203 reviews in their first month; the range was 48 to 311.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cooking (6 of 8) and Time Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cooking + Typing, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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 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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