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Japanese Ramen Simulator is a casual indie game released in 2026, developed and self-published by wild-dog. Its 236 Steam reviews are 92% positive, earning a Very Positive rating, and its initial price was $14.99.
Overview
Japanese Ramen Simulator is a 2026 Casual game developed by Wild Dog and published by Wild Dog. On Steam it has gathered 480 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Wild Dog with publisher Wild Dog 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 24,000 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, Japanese Ramen Simulator can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
480
Positive
92%
Steam appid
4968640
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.010K to 24K
units (median: 17K)
≈ $86K to $201K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 Japanese Ramen Simulator at roughly 10,000 to 24,000 copies, with a median around 17,000, derived from its 480 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $144K 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
2 observed days · window low $12.74Across 2 observed UTC days from 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-19, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.74 to $12.74. The tracked-window low was $12.74 on 2026-10-12.
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
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-10-19 07:32 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
CasualIndieSimulationEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Japanese Ramen Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Japanese Ramen Simulator has sold between 10,080 and 23,520 units (median 16,800), derived from its 480 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Japanese Ramen Simulator?
- Japanese Ramen Simulator was developed by Wild Dog and published by Wild Dog.
- Who published Japanese Ramen Simulator?
- Japanese Ramen Simulator was published by Wild Dog, developed by Wild Dog. See Wild Dog's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Japanese Ramen Simulator released?
- Japanese Ramen Simulator was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Japanese Ramen Simulator have on Steam?
- Japanese Ramen Simulator has 480 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Japanese Ramen Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Japanese Ramen Simulator 92% positive across 480 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 Japanese Ramen Simulator 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, Wild Dog's other releases and Wild Dog's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Japanese Ramen Simulator 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 Japanese Ramen Simulator 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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