How much revenue did Hidden Cats in Spooky Town make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hidden Cats in Spooky Town sell?

Q: How many copies did Hidden Cats in Spooky Town sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 313 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before Steam's cut; from 313 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 Hidden Cats in Spooky Town and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden Cats in Spooky Town's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 162k–1.1M

best case 3.7M (Planet Zoo)

Games like Hidden Cats in Spooky Town

A typical game among these

≈ 162k–1.1M copies

≈ $364k–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Cats (4 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: Planet Zoo at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $34.9M–$93.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 701 reviews in their first month; the range was 117 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cats (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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Planet Zoo 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.9M–$93.8M after Steam's cut $63.4M–$144.3M before Steam's cut	$44.99	98k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation
Cats Organized Neatly 2020	Est. copies ≈ 120k–195k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $99k–$265k after Steam's cut $180k–$408k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsPuzzle
Calico 2020	Est. copies ≈ 125k–203k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $411k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $748k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$11.99	5k reviews Very Positive	CuteCasual
A Little to the Left 2022	Est. copies ≈ 478k–777k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	19k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleRelaxing
Cat Goes Fishing 2015	Est. copies ≈ 808k–1.3M 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
inZOI 2025	Est. copies ≈ 824k–1.3M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut $16.5M–$37.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	33k reviews Mostly Positive	Life SimCharacter Customization
Miss Neko 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 119k–193k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $98k–$263k after Steam's cut $178k–$404k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
Minami Lane 2024	Est. copies ≈ 168k–273k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $230k–$619k after Steam's cut $419k–$952k before Steam's cut	$4.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CuteCasual