How much revenue did Cataplexy make?

$801–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cataplexy sell?

Q: How many copies did Cataplexy sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $801–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 59 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 Cataplexy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cataplexy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 161k–1.4M

best case 1.3M (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley)

Games like Cataplexy

A typical game among these

≈ 161k–1.4M copies

≈ $429k–$14.5M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Coffin of Andy and Leyley at ≈ 982k–1.6M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 845 reviews in their first month; the range was 73 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological + Dark Comedy, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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