How much revenue did The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart make?

$59k–$160k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart sell?

Q: How many copies did The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 375 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $59k–$160k after Steam's cut $108k–$246k before Steam's cut; from 375 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 380k–818k

best case 2.7M (Magicka)

Games like The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart

A typical game among these

≈ 380k–818k copies

≈ $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Magicka at ≈ 2.1M–3.3M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (6 of 8) and Comedy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Co-op, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Magicka 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.3M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut $10.2M–$23.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	32k reviews Very Positive	ComedyCo-op
Divinity II: Developer's Cut 2012	Est. copies ≈ 338k–549k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	RPGFantasy
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