How much revenue did Magician's Cat Diary make?

$136–$367 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Magician's Cat Diary sell?

Q: How many copies did Magician's Cat Diary sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $136–$367 after Steam's cut $247–$564 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 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 Magician's Cat Diary and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magician's Cat Diary's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 62k–117k

best case 1.1M (inZOI)

Games like Magician's Cat Diary

A typical game among these

≈ 62k–117k copies

≈ $163k–$782k 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: inZOI at ≈ 824k–1.3M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 601 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cats (7 of 8) and Life Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + Sexual Content + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

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 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Screen Cat 2025	Est. copies ≈ 47k–76k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before Steam's cut	$0.99	2k reviews Very Positive	CasualSimulation
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Meowjiro 2022	Est. copies ≈ 22k–35k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before Steam's cut	$4.99	871 reviews Very Positive	CasualLife Sim
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Animal Shelter 2022	Est. copies ≈ 103k–168k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $568k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	DogLife Sim
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