How much revenue did Cat Museum make?

$31k–$84k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Museum sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Museum sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 914 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $31k–$84k after Steam's cut $57k–$129k before Steam's cut; from 914 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 Museum and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Museum's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 225k–714k

best case 1.1M (Superliminal)

Games like Cat Museum

A typical game among these

≈ 225k–714k copies

≈ $395k–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Superliminal at ≈ 848k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 616 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Surreal (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Superliminal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 848k–1.4M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Samorost 3 2016	Est. copies ≈ 232k–377k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Point & ClickHand-drawn
INDIKA 2024	Est. copies ≈ 238k–387k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Very Positive	SurrealPuzzle
Manifold Garden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 213k–346k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleSurreal
Antichamber 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Rusty Lake Hotel 2016	Est. copies ≈ 443k–719k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $242k–$651k after Steam's cut $441k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$1.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePoint & Click
PUSS! 2018	Est. copies ≈ 47k–77k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $130k–$350k after Steam's cut $237k–$539k before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	PsychedelicDifficult
Hyperbolica 2022	Est. copies ≈ 33k–53k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $117k–$315k after Steam's cut $213k–$485k before Steam's cut	$12.99	1k reviews Very Positive	SurrealExploration