How much revenue did Cats Love Boxes make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cats Love Boxes sell?

Q: How many copies did Cats Love Boxes sell?

11k to 19k copies, based on its 460 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–19k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before Steam's cut; from 460 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 Cats Love Boxes and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Cats Love Boxes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 432k–4.1M

best case 3.7M (Planet Zoo)

Games like Cats Love Boxes

A typical game among these

≈ 432k–4.1M copies

≈ $2.2M–$39.4M after Steam's cut

from ~42k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Hack and Slash (2 of 4), 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: Planet Zoo at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $34.9M–$93.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (2 of 4) and Action RPG (1 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $45.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 that falls with release age, from about 36 for the most recent game here to about 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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BattleBlock Theater® 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.8M–$45.3M after Steam's cut $30.6M–$69.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-op Platformer
Planet Zoo 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.9M–$93.8M after Steam's cut $63.4M–$144.3M before Steam's cut	$44.99	98k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation
Cat Quest II 2019	Est. copies ≈ 209k–339k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $860k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureExploration
Cat Quest 2017	Est. copies ≈ 369k–600k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut	$12.99	11k reviews Very Positive	AdventureRPG