How much revenue did Cat Cafe Manager make?

$438k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Cafe Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Cafe Manager sell?

80k to 130k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–130k; $438k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $797k–$1.8M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Cat Cafe Manager and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Cafe Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–70k

best case 227k (My Dream Setup)

Games like Cat Cafe Manager

A typical game among these

≈ 63k–70k copies

≈ $379k–$553k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: My Dream Setup at ≈ 173k–281k copies, ≈ $285k–$766k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 252 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Cozy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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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