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Casual simulation indie game with cute farming sim and management tags, positioned for players searching cozy management play. Released in 2021 by cozy-bee-games and self-published, Lemon Cake has 2,034 Steam reviews at 85% positive and an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Lemon Cake is a 2021 Casual game developed by Cozy Bee Games and published by Cozy Bee Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,670 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Cozy Bee Games with publisher Cozy Bee Games 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 50,000 to 117,000 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, Lemon Cake can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,670
Positive
85%
Steam appid
1338330
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.050K to 117K
units (median: 84K)
≈ $429K to $1.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_85% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 Lemon Cake at roughly 50,000 to 117,000 copies, with a median around 84,000, derived from its 1,670 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $715K 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
16 observed days · window low $5.99Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-06-03.
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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Lemon Cake sold?
- indielist estimates Lemon Cake has sold between 50,100 and 116,900 units (median 83,500), derived from its 1,670 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Lemon Cake?
- Lemon Cake was developed by Cozy Bee Games and published by Cozy Bee Games.
- Who published Lemon Cake?
- Lemon Cake was published by Cozy Bee Games, developed by Cozy Bee Games. See Cozy Bee Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Lemon Cake released?
- Lemon Cake was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Lemon Cake have on Steam?
- Lemon Cake has 1,670 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Lemon Cake worth playing?
- Steam players rate Lemon Cake 85% positive across 1,670 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 Lemon Cake can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game, Cozy Grove, My Dream Setup, Minami Lane, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cozy Bee Games's other releases and Cozy Bee Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Lemon Cake 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 Lemon Cake 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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