Cafe Master Story
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A casual cafe-themed indie game, Cafe Master Story launched in 2023 from kairosoft-co-ltd and appears self-published under the same slug. Steam lists 259 reviews, marked mixed at 0% positive, with an initial price of $12.99.
Overview
Cafe Master Story is a 2023 Casual game developed by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd and published by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd. On Steam it has gathered 371 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $13. The pairing of developer Kairosoft Co.,Ltd with publisher Kairosoft Co.,Ltd is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 10,000 to 23,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Cafe Master Story can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
371
Positive
97%
Steam appid
2427100
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.010K to 23K
units (median: 17K)
≈ $74K to $173K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$13 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 45 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Cafe Master Story at roughly 10,000 to 23,000 copies, with a median around 17,000, derived from its 371 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $124K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
15 observed days · window low $12.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.99 to $12.99. The tracked-window low was $12.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Cafe Master Story sold?
- indielist estimates Cafe Master Story has sold between 10,017 and 23,373 units (median 16,695), derived from its 371 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Cafe Master Story?
- Cafe Master Story was developed by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd and published by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd.
- Who published Cafe Master Story?
- Cafe Master Story was published by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd, developed by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd. See Kairosoft Co.,Ltd's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Cafe Master Story released?
- Cafe Master Story was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Cafe Master Story have on Steam?
- Cafe Master Story has 371 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is Cafe Master Story worth playing?
- Steam players rate Cafe Master Story 97% positive across 371 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Cafe Master Story can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Kairosoft Co.,Ltd's other releases and Kairosoft Co.,Ltd's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cafe Master Story sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Cafe Master Story page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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