How many copies has The Chef's Shift sold?

indielist estimates The Chef's Shift has sold between 40,530 and 94,570 units (median 67,550), derived from its 1,930 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Chef's Shift?

The Chef's Shift was developed by Panitia GameDev and published by Catoptric Games.

Who published The Chef's Shift?

The Chef's Shift was published by Catoptric Games, developed by Panitia GameDev. See Catoptric Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Chef's Shift released?

The Chef's Shift was released in 2025.

How many reviews does The Chef's Shift have on Steam?

The Chef's Shift has 1,930 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is The Chef's Shift worth playing?

Steam players rate The Chef's Shift 98% positive across 1,930 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.

The Chef's Shift

Mar 31, 2025 Casual $12.99

Developer Panitia GameDev Publisher Catoptric Games

Profile updated May 2026

Players manage restaurant operations in The Chef's Shift, a 2025 release categorized under the indie tag. The title holds 1,577 reviews on Steam, maintaining a 97% positive rating. This project is self-published by the developer.

The Chef's Shift is a 2025 Casual game developed by Panitia GameDev and published by Catoptric Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,930 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $13. The pairing of developer Panitia GameDev with publisher Catoptric 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 41,000 to 95,000 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, The Chef's Shift can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,930

Positive

98%

Steam appid

2390230

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

102

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 08:40 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

41K to 95K

units (median: 68K)

≈ $301K to $702K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

41K median 95K

+ How is this calculated?

1,930 reviews × NB(35) = 67,550 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$13	0
positive_98%	+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 The Chef's Shift at roughly 41,000 to 95,000 copies, with a median around 68,000, derived from its 1,930 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $501K 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

19 observed days · window low $9.09

Across 19 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.09 to $12.99. The tracked-window low was $9.09 on 2026-07-21.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Chef's Shift sold?: indielist estimates The Chef's Shift has sold between 40,530 and 94,570 units (median 67,550), derived from its 1,930 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Chef's Shift?: The Chef's Shift was developed by Panitia GameDev and published by Catoptric Games.
Who published The Chef's Shift?: The Chef's Shift was published by Catoptric Games, developed by Panitia GameDev. See Catoptric Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Chef's Shift released?: The Chef's Shift was released in 2025.
How many reviews does The Chef's Shift have on Steam?: The Chef's Shift has 1,930 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is The Chef's Shift worth playing?: Steam players rate The Chef's Shift 98% positive across 1,930 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.

Players looking for games like The Chef's Shift can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Papa's Freezeria Deluxe, Overcooked! All You Can Eat, Cookie Clicker, Game Dev Tycoon, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Panitia GameDev's other releases and Catoptric Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Chef's Shift 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 The Chef's Shift 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.