How much revenue did Catniptic make?

$272–$732 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Catniptic sell?

Q: How many copies did Catniptic sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 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 Catniptic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Catniptic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–2.3M

best case 12.2M (VRChat)

Games like Catniptic

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–2.3M copies

≈ $32k–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: VRChat at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 95 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 69k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cats (6 of 8) and Memes (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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Cat Goes Fishing 2015	Est. copies ≈ 808k–1.3M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut	$6.99	17k reviews Very Positive	FishingCats
VRChat 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9.3M–15.1M 29x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	269k reviews Mostly Positive	VRFree to Play
MEMOLOGY: GOYDA 2024	Est. copies ≈ 56k–91k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $31k–$83k after Steam's cut $56k–$127k before Steam's cut	$1.99	2k reviews Very Positive	MemesParody
Chinese Parents 2018	Est. copies ≈ 823k–1.3M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Life SimPsychological Horror
Matching Cats 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $692–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$1.99	51 reviews Very Positive	CatsPuzzle
МЕМОЛОГИЯ 2021	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut	$0.99	585 reviews Very Positive	MemesParody
Stray 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M 19x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.6M–$98.3M after Steam's cut $66.5M–$151.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	179k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsAdventure
Nyan Cat: Lost In Space 2015	Est. copies ≈ 100k–162k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $137k–$369k after Steam's cut $249k–$567k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	MemesCats