How much revenue did Cat Needs make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Needs sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Needs sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 56 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 56 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 Cat Needs and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Needs's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–86k

best case 147k (A Building Full of Cats)

Games like Cat Needs

A typical game among these

≈ 34k–86k copies

≈ $13k–$58k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: A Building Full of Cats at ≈ 112k–182k copies, ≈ $92k–$248k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 223 reviews in their first month; the range was 36 to 391.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cats (8 of 8) and Hidden Object (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Hidden Object, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 2 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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A Building Full of Cats 2022	Est. copies ≈ 112k–182k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $92k–$248k after Steam's cut $167k–$381k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsHidden Object
Milo and the Magpies 2021	Est. copies ≈ 85k–139k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $70k–$189k after Steam's cut $128k–$290k before Steam's cut	$2.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventurePoint & Click
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Travellin Cats in Georgia 2024	Est. copies ≈ 24k–39k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut	$0.99	962 reviews Very Positive	CatsHidden Object
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