How much revenue did Bad Cat make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bad Cat sell?

Q: How many copies did Bad Cat sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 87 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 87 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 Bad Cat and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Cat's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.6M

best case 3.8M (GRIS)

Games like Bad Cat

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–2.6M copies

≈ $5.4M–$11.9M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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 Puzzle (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: GRIS at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M 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 Puzzle (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Female Protagonist, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Beautiful + Female Protagonist + Hand-drawn; 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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