How much revenue did Neko Journey make?

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

How many copies did Neko Journey sell?

Q: How many copies did Neko Journey sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 60 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 60 reviews (Mixed)

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 Neko Journey and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Neko Journey's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 481k–934k

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like Neko Journey

A typical game among these

≈ 481k–934k copies

≈ $2.2M–$7.1M 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Platformer (4 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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.1M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.6M–$149.5M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 53 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (4 of 8) and Souls-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Souls-like, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Action-Adventure + Third Person + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 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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