How much revenue did Cat Powered UFO make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Powered UFO sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Powered UFO sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 28 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 Cat Powered UFO and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Powered UFO's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 222k–294k

best case 3.2M (A Dance of Fire and Ice)

Games like Cat Powered UFO

A typical game among these

≈ 222k–294k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Comedy (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: A Dance of Fire and Ice at ≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (3 of 8) and Short (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Music, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Rhythm + Music + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 1 of the 7 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 38 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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