How much revenue did A Building Full of Cats make?

$92k–$248k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Building Full of Cats sell?

Q: How many copies did A Building Full of Cats sell?

112k to 182k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 112k–182k; $92k–$248k after Steam's cut $167k–$381k before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 A Building Full of Cats and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Building Full of Cats's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 80k–168k

best case 627k (A Little to the Left)

Games like A Building Full of Cats

A typical game among these

≈ 80k–168k copies

≈ $104k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: A Little to the Left at ≈ 478k–777k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 396 reviews in their first month; the range was 79 to 807.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cats (5 of 8) and Hidden Object (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
When they shipped: Only 1 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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