How much revenue did CATharsis make?

$285–$767 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CATharsis sell?

Q: How many copies did CATharsis sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $285–$767 after Steam's cut $519–$1k before Steam's cut; from 14 reviews (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 CATharsis and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CATharsis's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 211k–1.1M

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like CATharsis

A typical game among these

≈ 211k–1.1M copies

≈ $815k–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Anime (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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