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This casual simulation game, Creature Kitchen, is slated for a 2026 release. It has garnered 6,035 Steam reviews, indicating player interest. The developer slug is unknown, and publisher attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Creature Kitchen is a 2026 Casual game developed by The Rat Zone and published by The Rat Zone. On Steam it has gathered 8,907 player reviews, 100% 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 $8. The pairing of developer The Rat Zone with publisher The Rat Zone 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 160,000 to 374,000 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, Creature Kitchen can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,907
Positive
100%
Steam appid
3097300
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0160K to 374K
units (median: 267K)
≈ $732K to $1.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_100% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 30 |
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 Creature Kitchen at roughly 160,000 to 374,000 copies, with a median around 267,000, derived from its 8,907 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M 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
69 observed days · window low $6.39Across 69 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.39 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $6.39 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
CasualIndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Creature Kitchen sold?
- indielist estimates Creature Kitchen has sold between 160,326 and 374,094 units (median 267,210), derived from its 8,907 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Creature Kitchen?
- Creature Kitchen was developed by The Rat Zone and published by The Rat Zone.
- Who published Creature Kitchen?
- Creature Kitchen was published by The Rat Zone, developed by The Rat Zone. See The Rat Zone's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Creature Kitchen released?
- Creature Kitchen was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Creature Kitchen have on Steam?
- Creature Kitchen has 8,907 Steam reviews, of which 100% are positive.
- Is Creature Kitchen worth playing?
- Steam players rate Creature Kitchen 100% positive across 8,907 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 Creature Kitchen 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, The Rat Zone's other releases and The Rat Zone's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Creature Kitchen 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 Creature Kitchen 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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