How much revenue did CATch the Stars: Japan make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CATch the Stars: Japan sell?

Q: How many copies did CATch the Stars: Japan sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 144 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 144 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 CATch the Stars: Japan and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CATch the Stars: Japan's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147k–417k

best case 5.8M (Stray)

Games like CATch the Stars: Japan

A typical game among these

≈ 147k–417k copies

≈ $176k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Stray at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $36.6M–$98.3M 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 485 reviews in their first month; the range was 117 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cats (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Cyberpunk, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Atmospheric + Cyberpunk + Robots; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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 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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