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How many copies did Cattails: Wildwood Story sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 48k–78k
$265k–$713k after Steam's cut $482k–$1.1M before Steam's cut
from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Cattails: Wildwood Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cattails: Wildwood Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–48k
best case 62k (Spirit of the Island)
Games like Cattails: Wildwood Story

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–48k copies

≈ $67k–$445k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Spirit of the Island at ≈ 47k–77k copies, ≈ $195k–$524k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 323 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 662.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Farming Sim (5 of 8) and Life Sim (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Life Sim + Farming Sim, priced around $15.
When they shipped
Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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