How much revenue did A Cats Life make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Cats Life sell?

Q: How many copies did A Cats Life sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–169k

best case 435k (WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition)

Games like A Cats Life

A typical game among these

≈ 47k–169k copies

≈ $493k–$1.3M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Building (3 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: WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition at ≈ 332k–539k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 119 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (3 of 8) and Life Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Survival, priced around $30.
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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