How much revenue did Cats and the Other Lives make?

$210k–$565k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cats and the Other Lives sell?

Q: How many copies did Cats and the Other Lives sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–62k; $210k–$565k after Steam's cut $382k–$869k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Cats and the Other Lives and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cats and the Other Lives's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 663k–1.6M

best case 2.9M (OMORI)

Games like Cats and the Other Lives

A typical game among these

≈ 663k–1.6M copies

≈ $2.1M–$10.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: OMORI at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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NEKOPARA Vol. 0 2015	Est. copies ≈ 869k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $715k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$2.99	18k reviews Very Positive	AnimeNudity
NEKOPARA Vol. 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 414k–672k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiSexual Content
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OMORI 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.6M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$50.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	89k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Story Rich